“朋友就是那些能帮你的人”:揭示中国年轻农民工对友谊的理解和经历

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16770752617895

Jingyu Mao, Yan Zhu

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摘要

基于在中国西南地区的长期民族志田野调查，本文揭示了不稳定和移民如何深刻地塑造了年轻农民工对友谊的理解和体验。不稳定的工作和生活条件迫使年轻的流动人口更加重视友谊的工具方面，他们非常重视朋友的帮助和实际支持，这也与友谊的情感方面密切相关。高流动性并不意味着移民不能形成和维持“有意义的”社会关系;更确切地说，是朋友的支持和帮助维持了移民不稳定和高度流动的生活方式。本文还讨论了与这种友谊行为相关的负担和风险，以及尽管存在这些“友谊的阴暗面”，年轻的农民工如何在很大程度上依靠他们的朋友来生存和继续在城市里生活。

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‘Friends are those who can help you out’: unpacking the understanding and experiences of friendship among young migrant workers in China

Based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork in Southwest China, this article unpacks how precarity and migration have deeply shaped young migrant workers’ understanding and experiences of friendship. The precarious work and living conditions compel young migrants to put more emphasis on the instrumental aspects of friendship, in which they deeply value friends’ help and practical support, which also intertwine closely with the emotional aspects of friendship. High mobility does not mean that migrants are not able to form and maintain ‘meaningful’ social relationships; rather, it is friends’ support and help which sustain migrants’ precarious and highly mobile ways of living. This article also discusses the burdens and risks that are associated with such friendship practices, and how, despite these ‘dark sides of friendship’, young migrant workers still largely rely on their friends to survive and keep going in the city.

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.