The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants

Q3 Social Sciences
Xinyuan Wang
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start from there... we need to treat Internet media as continuous with and embedded in other social spaces, that they happen within mundane social structures and relations that they may transform but that they cannot escape into a self-enclosed cyberian apartness”. In the light of these reflections on digital anthropology, this paper aims to understand the use of social media among young Chinese migrant workers in both offline and online contexts. First of all, the significant “offline” context of this study is the massive domestic migration in China. In the process of ongoing urbanisation and industrialisation, the expansion of capitalism has had profoundly dislocating effects on Chinese society. By 2015, when the fieldwork was conducted, there were more than 250 million Chinese who had left their places of origin in rural China to seek employment in Chinese factory towns and cities (NBSC, 2016). These rural migrants are referred to as a “floating population,” which indicates the difficulty of settling down in urban China in the rigorous Chinese household registration (Hukou) system. This paper is based on 15 months of ethnographic research (2013-2015) in a small town called GoodPath1 in southeast China. GoodPath is a typical industrial town which serves as a transitional place connecting the village and city. The local process of industrialization has turned most of the farmland (76%) into more than 60 large scale factories within a decade. Migrant workers account for two-thirds of the
中国农民工的数字身份
从那里开始……我们需要将互联网媒体视为与其他社会空间的延续和嵌入,它们发生在世俗的社会结构和关系中,它们可能会改变,但它们不能逃避到自我封闭的网络隔离中。”基于这些对数字人类学的反思,本文旨在了解中国年轻农民工在线下和线上情境下对社交媒体的使用。首先,本研究的重要“线下”背景是中国大规模的国内移民。在持续的城市化和工业化过程中,资本主义的扩张对中国社会产生了深刻的混乱影响。到2015年,当实地调查进行时,有超过2.5亿的中国人离开了他们在中国农村的原籍地,在中国的工厂城镇和城市寻找就业机会(NBSC, 2016)。这些农村移民被称为“流动人口”,这表明在严格的中国户口制度下,在中国城市定居是很困难的。本文基于在中国东南部小镇GoodPath1进行的为期15个月的民族志研究(2013-2015)。GoodPath是一个典型的工业城镇,是连接乡村和城市的过渡场所。当地的工业化进程在十年内将大部分农田(76%)变成了60多个大型工厂。农民工占了三分之二
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Sociologia e Antropologia
Sociologia e Antropologia Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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期刊介绍: Sociologia & Antropologia busca contribuir para a divulgação, expansão e aprimoramento do conhecimento sociológico e antropológico em seus diversos campos temáticos e perspectivas teóricas, valorizando a troca profícua entre as distintas tradições teóricas que configuram as duas disciplinas. Sociologia & Antropologia almeja, portanto, a colaboração, a um só tempo crítica e compreensiva, entre as perspectivas sociológica e antropológica, favorecendo a comunicação dinâmica e o debate sobre questões teóricas, empíricas, históricas e analíticas cruciais. Reconhecendo a natureza pluriparadigmática do conhecimento social, a Revista valoriza assim as oportunidades de intercâmbio entre pontos de vista convergentes e divergentes nesses diferentes campos do conhecimento. Essa é a proposta expressa pelo símbolo “&”, que, no título da revista Sociologia & Antropologia, interliga as denominações das disciplinas que nos referenciam. Sociologia & Antropologia aceita os seguintes tipos de contribuição: 1) Artigos inéditos (até 9 mil palavras incluindo referências bibliográficas e notas) 2) Registros de pesquisa (até 4.400 palavras). Esta seção inclui: Apresentação de fontes e documentos de interesse para a história das ciências sociais Notas de pesquisa com fotografias Balanço bibliográfico de temas e questões das ciências sociais 3) Resenhas bibliográficas (até 1.600 palavras). 4) Entrevistas
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