Yujiao Xing

Yujiao Xing 

DPhil Candidate  

Affiliation: Department of Sociology
Expert in: Gender and sexuality in migration, Migrant families and children
Geographic focus:  China, Global South

“Return migration and Chinese family relationships changes”. My project will bridge the literature on migration and family modernization while bringing in the topic of return migration which has been neglected in migration and family study. With the lens of China’s urban-rural return migration, I will study the family relationship changes, starting from the husband-wife relationships and extending to the intergenerational relationships which are embedded in, against the background of modernization and globalization. Further, I will explore the possibly more complex and diverse processes of family transition unfolding in China which is very different from the mainstream Western context.