Patterns of Temporary Labor Migration of Rural Women from Anhui and Sichuan

    The migration of women,long neglected in studies of mobility,has finally come to the forefront during the last decade.This same decade has witnessed what is recognized as the largest peacetime migration in human history,the movement of rural Chinese from their villages to work in town and cities.The convergence of this theoretical focus and historical reality has meant that gender has become the focus of recent studies of labor migration in China.
    A highly visible component of female labor migration in China is comprised of the many young women who leave their villages in the interior of the country to work in export-oriented factories on the coast.The majority of these young……
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    （in The China Journal, 2004 July(52): 49-70）