Migrant Workers in Shanghai
As China’s economy turns to globalisation, at home the issue of a floating workforce is becoming more intense and complex. In Shanghai, low-skilled migrants are subject to economic and social segregation. This comes with a social stigma and restricts the migrants to particular economic sectors within a fragmented labour market. Nonetheless, the itineraries the migrants follow allow them to acquire certain skills and resources. Their survival strategies produce what have been called “situations of affiliation and disaffiliation” within an overall situation of general insecurity.
New Media Workers Across Asia and Europe
A Research Platform for Interregional Collaboration
Shanghai, 8-11 July 2010
Organized by HBK Saar and the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, the Shanghai platform is the first of three research platforms (Kolkata 2011, Sydney 2012) in the ARC project ‘Culture in Transition: Creative Labour and Social Mobilities in the Asian Century’.
