A new open-access article has just been published based on the findings from the current phase of the study.
The article tries to illustrate how participants who switched to skilled migrant visas in Australia post-study are motivated not simply by rational-strategic calculation, as is often assumed, but also––perhaps even more powerfully––by their desire to escape the culture of spiralling overwork in recessionary China and obtain greater control over their own time. It shows how they use their class privilege to offset their gender disadvantage by obtaining more flexibility in how they can use their time at both everyday and biographical scales, post-migration.
The article is part of a forthcoming special issue of Population, Space and Place on “Theorizing Migration and Social Mobility in Asia and Beyond,” co-edited by Marta Bivand Erdal, Brenda Yeoh, Karen Liao and Wei Yang.
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