Ethnography
Volume 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-313

In the Eye of the Chicken: Hierarchy and marginality among Beijing's migrant schoolchildren (Article)

Woronov T.E.*
  • a Center for Chinese Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 2223 Fulton St., Ste 503, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States

Abstract

As Beijing is being transformed into a global city, new kinds of spatial and social hierarchies are produced. Based on ethnographic research conducted among students at a school for the children of migrant workers in China's capital, this article examines how new hierarchies are continuously produced through embodied spatial practices within city space, and examines how school texts, state ideology, and children's appearances produce new kinds of marginalities. © 2004, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Schooling China Migration Children Beijing hierarchy Space Marginality

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DOI: 10.1177/1466138104044631
ISSN: 14661381
Cited by: 42
Original Language: English