Privileged Daughters?: Gendered Mobility among Highly Educated Chinese Female Migrants in the UK

• Tu, Mengwei ^[1] ; Xie, Kailing ^[2]
  1. [1] East China University of Science and Technology

     East China University of Science and Technology

     China

     
  2. [2] University of Warwick

     University of Warwick

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Social Inclusion, ISSN-e 2183-2803, Vol. 8, Nº. 2, 1, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Left Behind? Women’s Status in Contemporary China), págs. 68-76
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.17645/si.v8i2.2675
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• Resumen

  • The one-child generation daughters born to middle-class Chinese parents enjoy the privilege of concentrated family resources and the opportunity for education overseas. We focus on the “privileged daughters” who have studied abroad and remained overseas as professionals. Using three cases of post-student female migrants who were of different ages and at different life stages, we situate their socioeconomic mobility in the context of intergenerational relationships and transnational social space. Drawing on further interview data from the same project we argue that, although the “privileged daughters” have achieved geographical mobility and upward social mobility, through education and a career in a Western country, their life choices remain heavily influenced by their parents in China. Such findings highlight the transnationally transferred gendered burden among the relatively “elite” cohort, thus revealing a more nuanced gendered interpretation of transnational socioeconomic mobility.

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