Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China
How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value....
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| description | How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-638872025-03-12T22:31:59Z Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China Kaufmann, Lena China rural-urban migration knowledge and skill rice farming migrant-left-behind nexus thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency. 2021-03-06T03:01:54Z 2021-03-06T03:01:54Z 2021-03-05T10:52:48Z 2021 book ONIX_20210305_9789048552184_4 OCN: 1242871707 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47044 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63887 eng New Mobilities in Asia open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47044/1/9789048552184.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47044/1/9789048552184.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47044/1/9789048552184.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789048552184 10.5117/9789048552184 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Amsterdam University Press 306 open access |
| spellingShingle | China rural-urban migration knowledge and skill rice farming migrant-left-behind nexus thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming Kaufmann, Lena Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China |
| title | Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China |
| title_full | Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China |
| title_fullStr | Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China |
| title_short | Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China |
| title_sort | rural urban migration and agro technological change in post reform china |
| topic | China rural-urban migration knowledge and skill rice farming migrant-left-behind nexus thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming |
| topic_facet | China rural-urban migration knowledge and skill rice farming migrant-left-behind nexus thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming |
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