Overview
This book offers an engaging and unique view of the governance of Chinese rural migrants in non-factory areas of manufacturing towns. By asking how authorities govern migrants as an ongoing source of cheap labor, this book demonstrates and interprets authorities’ power exercised in the form of governing rationalities, regulations, programs, activities, and designated non-factory spaces—town and village centers and migrant living zones. These power exercises take place routinely in migrants’ everyday lives but typically veil themselves, producing knowledge that legitimates our understanding of migrants. Based on their power exercises, authorities’ governance of migrants, like multiple “invisible filters” that select and help create migrant labor in non-factory areas, leads to an inclusion of a certain number of migrants as cheap factory workers and an exclusion of the rest. Nevertheless, by exercising their unique power techniques, migrants can resist and alter authority governance; thus the authorities’ power exercises are deficient and may ultimately be futile. This book details these power exercises, offers rewarding insights, and can greatly enrich our understanding of China’s local governance of migrants and migrant resistance.
Full Product Details
Author: Yue Gong
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition: 2019 ed.
Weight: 0.524kg
ISBN: 9789811333712
ISBN 10: 9811333718
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 17 January 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
It will be best appreciated by readers with a solid background on China who will better understand the nuance and terminology used throughout the book (for instance Marxist references to mass-line work). ... this book offers a new perspective on power relations between migrants and their governing authorities, with emphasis on the latter. (Denise Hare, China Information, Vol. 34 (1), 2020) The book Manufacturing Towns in China weaves together various actors, policies and regulations, governance technologies, adaptations and resistances and develops an insightful and well-elaborated argument on the 'invisible filter' of the territorial governance in China. ... Readers are guided through a journey of different events in the past as well as in the present, in the West as well as in the East and among socialists as well as capitalists. (June Wang, Eurasian Geography and Economics, July 16, 2019)
“It will be best appreciated by readers with a solid background on China who will better understand the nuance and terminology used throughout the book (for instance Marxist references to mass-line work). … this book offers a new perspective on power relations between migrants and their governing authorities, with emphasis on the latter.” (Denise Hare, China Information, Vol. 34 (1), 2020) “The book Manufacturing Towns in China weaves together various actors, policies and regulations, governance technologies, adaptations and resistances and develops an insightful and well-elaborated argument on the ‘invisible filter’ of the territorial governance in China. … Readers are guided through a journey of different events in the past as well as in the present, in the West as well as in the East and amongsocialists as well as capitalists.” (June Wang, Eurasian Geography and Economics, July 16, 2019)
The book Manufacturing Towns in China weaves together various actors, policies and regulations, governance technologies, adaptations and resistances and develops an insightful and well-elaborated argument on the 'invisible filter' of the territorial governance in China. ... Readers are guided through a journey of different events in the past as well as in the present, in the West as well as in the East and among socialists as well as capitalists. (June Wang, Eurasian Geography and Economics, July 16, 2019)
The book Manufacturing Towns in China weaves together various actors, policies and regulations, governance technologies, adaptations and resistances and develops an insightful and well-elaborated argument on the `invisible filter' of the territorial governance in China. ... Readers are guided through a journey of different events in the past as well as in the present, in the West as well as in the East and among socialists as well as capitalists. (June Wang, Eurasian Geography and Economics, July 16, 2019)
Author Information
Yue Ray Gong is Assistant Professor at the School of Urban Planning and Design at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. His research focuses on urban governance and migration, housing and community, and periurban areas of China.
