Young Chinese Migrants: Compressed Individual and Global Condition

Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Ph.D. and Habilitation in Sociology, is Research Director at CNRS (France), ENS Lyon, Triangle. She has published numerous articles and more than twenty books, including Post-Western Revolution in Sociology (Brill, 2016), Travail et migration. Jeunesses chinoises à Shanghai et Paris, with Yan Jun (L’Aube, 2017), Post-Western Sociology. From China to Europe, co-edited wiht Li Peilin, (Routledge, 2018)

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Figures, Maps and TablesIntroduction: Young Chinese Migrants, the Compressed Individual and Global Condition1 Compressed Modernity, Time and Space2 Chinese Experience and Young Migrants2.1 Chinese Experience and Internal Migration2.2 Chinese Migration and Transnationalism3 Work and “Emotional Capitalism”4 Compressed Individual and Inequalities5 Compressed Modernity, Subpolitics and Collective Action1 Chinese Young Migrants, Subalternity and the Compressed Individual1 New Urban Boundaries and Migratory Ordeals in China2 Young Migrants and Urban Segregation3 Labour and Subalternity4 Employment and Social Discrimination5 Floating Labour, Hegemonic Labour Regimes and Emotions6 Social Conflicts, Collective Action and Dormitory Regimes7 Multi-Compressed Modernity and Mobility8 Compressed mobilities and Subalternity8.1 Strong Subalternity8.2 Integrative subalternity8.3 Weak Subalternity2 The Fabric of “Heroes” and Emotional Capitalism1 Young Migrant Graduates and Employment2 Compressed Modernities and Migratory Careers2.1 Disaffiliative Mobility and Weak Integration2.2 Affiliative Mobility and Strong Integration2.3 “Alternative” Mobility and the Distancing of Compressed Modernity3 Moral Economies and the Compressed Individual4 “Being a Hero” and Restricted Autonomy5 Guanxi and Professional Relationships6 Socialist Heritage, Compressed Modernities and Work7 Compressed Modernity and Resistance to Emotional Capitalism3 Young Chinese Migrants, Economic Cosmopolitanism and Globalisation1 Young Chinese Migrants and Local Cosmopolitanisms2 Compressed society, migration and the digital economy3 Retail Traders, Entrepreneurs and Workers4 Inter-Ethnic Relations, Muslim Solidarity and Discrimination5 Transmigration and Economic Assemblages4 Young Chinese Migrants and World Society1 Work, Employment and Young Chinese Graduates in Europe2 Ethnic Niches, Violence and Suffering3 Chinese Economic Elites and the Cosmopolitan Spirit4 Discrimination, Racism and Skills5 Ethnic Enclaves and Multiple Affiliations5 The Compressed Individual and Polygamic Biographies1 Social Networks, Spatial Capital and Migratory Circulations2 Compressed Individual and Family Governmentality3 Polygamic Biographies and the Translation of Resources4 Multi-Compressed Modernity and the Spiral of Downward Mobility5 Ownership, Maintenance and Loss of Self6 Compressed Individual, Re-migration in China and to ChinaConclusionBibliographyIndex