2-0650 DREAMS OF A BETTER LIFE: THE JOURNEYS AND IDENTITIES OF CHINESE MIGRANT LABORERS

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-19:45

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Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Ju-Chen Chen (Anthropology, THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)

Chairs: Ju-Chen Chen (Anthropology, THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)

18:00

Building Family In the City: A Case Study of Peasant Workers In Beijing Suburb

Ka-ming Wu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

18:15

Legacies of Migration: Family, Housing and Children of Migrant Laborers In China

Ju-Chen Chen (Anthropology, THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)

18:30

From Adventurers to Tamed Laborers: Sinicization of Minority Migrants In China

Shao-hua Liu (Academia Sinica)

18:45

Melted Metal and Broken Glass: Mobile Labor In the Chinese Countryside

Daniel R Husman (University of California, Berkeley)

19:00

Pursuing Freedom：the Livelihood and Identity of Junk Collectors In Beijing

Jieying Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

19:15

The Transition of the Management of Migrant Laborers In China: A Case Study of Shenzhen

Yihui Su (Peking University)

19:30

Discussion

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