Sociology and Criminology-Open Access
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University of Ghana, Legon Boundary, Accra, Ghana

Biography

Jieyu Liu is Reader in Sociology of China and Deputy Director of SOAS China Institute at SOAS University of London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, family and generation in China. Her first monograph Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (Routledge 2007) was concerned with the gendered impact of China’s economic reforms upon women from the Cultural Revolution Generation. It examined women’s experiences in the socialist work unit. 

Publications

• Editorial   
  Governing Left-behind Children through Family in China's Great Migration
  Author(s): Jieyu Liu*
  
  Existing scholarship on the lives and wellbeing of China’s left-behind children often frames the problems as a function of their parents’ migration, which leaves a big gap in discussing the role of the state in shaping the institutional framework that these families operate within, cope or struggle with. Through critically interrogating public discourses supported articles from a mainstream newspaper and policy documents since the first 2000s, this text situates a sociological inquiry into the discursive and institutional framework addressing ‘the left-behind children problem’ in China within the problematic of the connection between children, family, and therefore the state. The analysis reveals seemingly ‘disingenuous’ articulations of left-behind children’s value within the mainstream media and official policies. On the one hand, there seem.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2375-4435.21.9.e114

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