Ponente:  Susanne Yuk Ping Choi (Visiting Professor at University of Oxford)

Fecha: 31 de Octubre de 2024

Hora: 12:00h-13:30h.

Lugar: Seminario 427 – Salvador Santiuste

Modalidad: mixto, presencial y virtual.

Enlace de la videollamada: https://meet.google.com/zfy-pztx-kfb

Abstract

Official figures suggest that there were 295 million rural-to-urban migrants in China in 2021. Among them 63% were men. This presentation examines how rural-to-urban migration changes migrant men’s identity, roles and gender dynamics in the family.  It shows how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. It also reveals how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China’s sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations. The concept of masculine compromise highlights how changes in gender relationships ushered by migration are characterized by a combination of pragmatic adjustments and the continued salience of male gender identity and traditional ideology.

 Short bio:

Susanne Yuk Ping Choi is Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at University of Oxford, and Professor of Sociology/Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include migration, gender, family, and sexuality in Asia. She received her D.Phil. in Sociology from Nuffield College, University of Oxford.  She was a RGC-Fulbright Senior Award recipient and visiting scholar at Department of Sociology, Harvard University, and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore. Her lead-authored book Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China published by the University of California Press received the Best Book Award of the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration Section (RC31).