Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451492

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0451492

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Maid in China: Gendered Mobilities, Internal Migration, and the Translocal Imagination. Internal migration always restructures the spatial imagination, and variably across different social groups. In China, gender, class and power relations are important determinants of both mobility and concepts of place. Studying the phenomenon of the migrant baomu (the domestic maid), this project hypothsises that the emerging translocal practices of rural-urban migrants have significantly reworked the spatial imagination of the Chinese people. This project will lead to a new conceptualisation of place and space, with the flow of people and the flow of media images brought into productive interface. It will also generate important cross-cultural perspectives on women, work and migration. Research findings will be communicated in a book, Maid in China.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-2004

End Date: 12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $140,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Demography | Migration | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding other countries | Gender | Migrant development and welfare |

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