Following China’s nominal eradication of absolute poverty, policy attention has turned to common prosperity. With this policy intended to “raise low-incomes and expand middle-incomes”, migrant workers, one quarter of China’s population, deserve to benefit. Responding to a notable omission in the literature, this study explores migrants’ understanding of common prosperity as revealed by focus groups and in-depth interviews. Constructs derived inductively through a structured, multistage coding process are elucidated by reference to the concept of civic agency as the assertion of rights, negotiation of exclusion, and construction of identities. Migrants conceptualize common prosperity as “living a good life”, extending beyond material improvement to encompass social rights, identity, familial belonging, and personal dignity, dimensions of well-being they feel they lack. Individualistic, albeit family-oriented, their aspirations, characterized by dignity, belonging, and hope, remain conditional on equal access to public services but neglect resource redistribution as a means of achieving this.

The social impact of China’s policy of phasing out excess coal production since the 2010s is examined through the lens of “just transition.” Qualitative fieldwork undertaken in Liupanshui, Guizhou province, focussed on seven mines, among which three were decommissioned. Against the backdrop of top‐down policy imperatives aimed at rapidly reducing coal production capacity, more powerful stakeholders took action to safeguard their own perceived interests, thereby transferring the costs of transition to the least powerful actors while exacerbating existing injustices. At the same time, Confucian traditions and modern civic education in China—which prioritise endurance and compliance—limited individual voice and agency. By adopting just transition as a policy tool, China could avoid errors made by countries that transitioned earlier.

In this study, we examined the impact of online learning on children's educational progress during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly focusing on migrant children attending a primary school in Hangzhou, China. Through a combination of student and parent questionnaires (n = 537) and in-depth interviews with teachers and parents, we found that migrant children faced challenges such as poor connectivity, inadequate equipment, and lack of parental supervision when participating in online teaching. These challenges were exacerbated by pre-existing digital disparities and economic insecurities brought about by the pandemic, which further marginalised socially excluded families. As a result, children's ability to benefit from online instruction was compromised, highlighting the urgent need for remedial assistance and support for these vulnerable populations.

环境健康研究关注环境因素与人类健康的联系,其主题具有鲜明的时空特征.环境健康问题是陈阿江围绕水污染展开的环境社会学研究的重要分支,他与团队始终坚持对环境-健康因果联系的本质性思考.陈阿江的环境健康研究关注环境因素与人类健康的联系,从科学与社会两条进路探索问题的源头、表征与社会效应,并提出框架性的分析思路.他的环境健康研究包含两条主线,一是基于科学事实,直面环境健康问题的科学不确定性;二是基于社会事实,捕捉环境健康问题的社会建构逻辑.陈阿江的环境健康研究为平衡经济与环境要素的区域发展政策制定提供了理论基础与经验支撑,具有重大的意义.

乡村振兴是我国巩固脱贫攻坚成果、实现共同富裕的根本性战略.乡村振兴的关键环节是产业兴旺.产业兴旺不仅以农村经济收入增长为目标,更是乡村综合进步和可持续发展的要求.以贵州省黔县①的产业发展实践为例:近年来,贵州省内相对偏远的农村社区结合本地优势,探索优先发展精细有机农业,辅以特色手工加工业、旅游服务业的综合发展路径,偏远地区的剩余劳动力能够有效投入产业发展过程,从而将产业发展"楔入"乡土实际,塑造了极具地方特色的内生性发展道路.但与此同时,中西部农村的产业发展模式不能照搬沿海地区农村的经验,以剩余劳动力外流为特征的外生性发展路径仍然是偏远地区农村家庭生计的主要来源.产业兴旺的定义和衡量标准须切合当地实际,产业兴旺的动员与受益主体是当地群众.乡村的外生性发展与内生性发展模式本质上不互斥,二者相互补充并将在远期形成具有可持续性的良好发展模式.

基于对19户家庭的深度访谈,本文呈现并探讨城市双薪家庭家务劳动与分工在新冠疫情前后的变化及原因.通过建立二元分析框架,本文将真实的家务劳动与分工状态和家庭成员对其的判断、认识与感受共同纳入研究视域,强调平行于事实的家务劳动感知的重要意义.研究发现,城市双薪家庭的家务劳动样态与分工受制度文化、权力结构、人员流动、外部情境的影响.家庭成员倾向于将从事家务劳动认定为一种"顾家"的品质与家庭内部的平衡机制,并将其内化为一种生活习惯,这使得家务劳动时常"隐匿"于日常生活之中.新冠疫情重塑家务劳动样态,并通过调整家庭空间和家庭关系,使家务劳动与分工变得可见、可感.然而,这一变化并不稳定持久,在后疫情时代,家务劳动又退回"不可见"的状态.家务劳动的可见化与对家务分工的感知、言说与反思是促进家庭性别平等、保障家庭成员权益的契机,也是解析新冠疫情对个人生活、家庭关系、社会心态影响的载体.

This article sheds light on the online shopping of women migrant workers on a university campus in Beijing in the digital times.Based on 25 in-depth interviews, it illustrates the characteristics of, and influencing factors in, women migrant workers’ online shopping behaviors.It also searches evidence for how technology and the society co-construct the class disparity behind the consuming activities.Online shopping has become a part of women migrant workers’ daily life routine, as it manifests itself as a pragmatic taste of consumption that reflects their desire for social interaction, satisfaction, and social inclusion.Technological innovation does not resolve deficiency in their access to resources, nor does it reshape women migrant workers’ intersectional disadvantaged identity.Therefore, it does not necessarily contribute to either gender justice or social equality.This article calls on attention to the “alienation” of empowerment by the information and communications technology.

The dimensionality of child poverty is not well understood because children are seldom asked systematically to describe their poverty experience. This hinders the prediction of poverty's long-term consequences and constrains policy design. In this research, 55 children aged 8-12 from Hangzhou and Beijing China were each interviewed individually for 0.5-2 h and participated in 3-4 focus group sessions on poverty experience. Integrating their understanding with the perspectives of parents and teachers suggests nine dimensions of poverty: four structural (material deprivation, limiting home environment, constrained education, restricted opportunities); three relational (violence, negative social relations, lack of confidence) and two core (shame, neglected agency).

Scholars of childhood typically view children as agentic; poverty researchers, aware that poverty reduces children’s life-chances, may be tempted to consider them as victims. Adults experiencing poverty report feelings of powerlessness, and, by analogy, poverty may reduce children’s agency. However, comparatively little is known about the impact of poverty on child agency or the extent to which children use their agency to mediate the effects of poverty. Therefore, 55 low-income children from two Chinese schools were invited to participate in group discussions and qualitative interviews spread over several hours. Considering poverty to be multidimensional, children identified that their agency was restricted both by poverty and their status as children but argued that they were not without agency. This was confirmed in interviews with parents and teachers. Six strategies were identified that children use to ameliorate poverty’s effects. The strategies group into three pairs, the first strategy in each pair reflecting a child’s decision to accommodate to their circumstances with the second being an attempt to alter them. The first pair (norm adaptation and active communication) comprised coping strategies addressing the present; the second pair (self-improvement and self-sacrifice) were expressions of constructive agency; and the third pair (lowered expectations and rebellion) were partially acts of despair. Giving greater recognition to children’s attempts to improve the lives of their families and themselves may lead to more effective modes of policy intervention.

在日趋显著的城乡人口回流趋势下,探讨回流农村青年女性的社会地位和性别权力关系.基于晋北冯村的田野调查,流动造成的"去地域化"有助于回流青年女性摆脱传统习俗的约束;同时,流动促进女性个体化意识的增强,在一定程度上重塑了传统家庭的性别分工模式并挑战了父权家长制.然而,诸如从夫居等农村社会既有惯习及传统性别规范使回流青年女性多返回丈夫原籍所在村庄,扮演家庭主妇的角色.虽然外出务工经历大大提升了农村青年女性的能力和信心,但乡村文化中的父权制氛围仍将回流青年女性排斥在乡村治理和公共参与之外.

Chinese “Cancer Villages”: Rural Development, Environmental Change and Public Health Chen Ajiang, Cheng Pengli and Luo Yajuan Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020 304 pp. €109.00 ISBN 978-90-485-2457-0 - Volume 246

本文基于对浙江省杭州市萧山区江滨村35位“外来媳妇”的深度访谈,探讨女性跨省婚姻移民的婚姻迁移决策依据与情境.依照生命历程理论的研究传统,本文将婚姻迁移主体的生平、身处的社会、决策的时空情境纳入分析框架,检视经济条件、社会资源、社会网络在三代“外来媳妇”婚姻迁移决策中扮演的角色.时空情境的变换导致三代“外来媳妇”婚姻迁移决策背景的显著代际差异,体现在她们对婚姻交换的不同认知与实践中,并呈现出同龄群体效应.

This research examines how poverty is perceived and deflected by a group of female cross-provincial marriage migrants in contemporary rural China. It presents accounts of poverty-related shame in everyday village life. Known as migrant wives, respondents in this research have experienced both absolute and relative poverty over the course of their lives. The personal lament of insufficiency and the social discourse of poverty respectively underpin internal and external poverty-related shame. Correspondingly, migrant wives employ strategies of recounting misery and redefining identity to normalise their poverty and their stigmatised social image, hoping to mitigate the psychological and social impacts of shame. This research contributes an empirical analysis to our understanding about the origin, manifestation, and impact of povertyrelated shame, which is usually a neglected consideration in poverty studies. It also sheds light on the gender-specified risks, burdens, and social expectation that affect migrant wives’ perception and experience of poverty.