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Revisiting Gender and Class in Urban China: Undervalued Work of Migrant Teachers and Their Resistance

Pages 124-139
Published online: 15 Apr 2015
 

Borrowing the critical lenses of social structure analysis to rearticulate the language of struggle, this article focuses on a new social group, migrant teachers in urban Chinese cities. Nevertheless, the formation of this new social body with all of their struggles can no longer be described or politicized as mere class or gender struggles as they experience, make sense of, and react to their life trajectories in contemporary China. The description of them should be grounded in daily experience from below—in the everyday life struggles of these Chinese migrant teachers in confrontation with rapidly shifting state power and social transformation. A better understanding of the politics of migrant teachers’ work requires a fuller account of the mutually constitutive social, cultural, and economic factors. This article aims to illustrate how these factors inform one another to shape the work and identity in the movement of educating children from the migrant communities.

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the teachers, parents, and community activists who not only participated in the study, but also provided heartfelt support in so many ways throughout the whole process. Their names stay anonymous, but their commitment and determination continue to be inspiring. Many thanks to Michael Apple, Ming Fang He, Diana Hess, Nancy Kendall, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Christopher B. Crowley, Leonel Lim, Katrina Liu, Mi Ok Kang, Matthew Knoester, Melissa Sherfinski, and Quentin Wheeler-Bell, for their insightful guidance, critical feedback, and supportive friendship.

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Min Yu

Min Yu is an assistant professor in the Department of Childhood Education and Family Studies at Missouri State University. Her main research interests focus on curriculum studies, migration/immigration and education, social movement theories, and gender and education.

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