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ASIAN AND PACIFIC MIGRATION JOURNAL
卷 29, 期 2, 页码 163-185出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0117196820931314
关键词
desire; returned overseas Chinese; China; Indonesia; gender; women
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The past decades have witnessed a burgeoning literature onguiqiao(Returned Overseas Chinese) in the People's Republic of China. These works have advanced and broadened research in this field; however, there is a persistent male bias that tends to ignore the gendered nature of migration processes or simplistically frame the return migration of women through a monolithic masculine/patriotic lens. To fill this gap, this paper looks at gendered motivations behind the 'return' of Chinese women from Indonesia in the 1950s. Seeing gender as 'a central organizing principle in migration flows and in the organization of migrants lives' (Lutz 2010: 1651) and drawing upon interviews and archival studies, it suggests that the 'return' of Chinese women to Maoist China was closely associated with postcolonial feminist imagination, or more specifically, a longing for 'emancipated womanhood,' in a transnational context mediated by citizenship and ethnicity. In addition, the experiences of femaleguiqiaoas voluntary migrants and successful careerists challenge the (mis)conception of Chinese women migrants as trailing dependents, adding a counter narrative to the overarching androcentric discourse about Chinese migration from a historical perspective.
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