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Privileged Daughters? Gendered Mobility among Highly Educated Chinese Female Migrants in the UK

Mengwei Tu Orcid Logo, Kailing Xie

Social Inclusion, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 68 - 76

Swansea University Author: Mengwei Tu Orcid Logo

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The one-child generation daughters born to middle-class Chinese parents enjoy the privilege of concentrated family resources and the opportunity for education overseas. We focus on the “privileged daughters” who have studied abroad and remained overseas as professionals. Using three cases of post-st...

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ISSN: 2183-2803
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