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Dr Dhiman Das, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

ABSTRACT

China has witnessed tremendous increase in internal migration during the past three decades. While there is huge diversity in the direct causes of migration such as job, education, and marriage, the common theme has been pursuits of upward mobility. Specifically, both education and advantageous family origins may facilitate assimilation into the receiving communities, and render more marriages across the regional boundaries and better long-term career development in the receiving communities. However, the education effect has largely been moderated by family origins. For the highly-educated migrants, while those with wealthier family background tend to have prosperous career prospects in both the receiving and the sending communities, those from economically disadvantaged families are more determined to take root in the receiving communities. However, for migrants who did not go to college, their actions of migration tend to be transient regardless of family origins. There are remarkable gender differences in both the main effects of education and family origins, and their interactions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Mu Zheng is a joint Postdoctoral Fellow with the Changing Family in Asia cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and the Centre for Family and Population Research at the National University of Singapore. She has received her PhD from the University of Michigan in December 2013. Her research interests include marriage and family, fertility, ethnicity, gender inequality, child development, globalization, contemporary China, comparative studies, and quantitative methods. At ARI, she is working on projects examining heterogeneities in the mechanisms and outcomes of Chinese migrants’ marital behaviors.

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