Journal article
The would-be migrant: post-socialist primitive accumulation, potential transnational mobility, and the displacement of the present in northeast China
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This article argues that ‘would-be migrants’ – people who prepare for migrating overseas to the extent that their present lives are significantly changed – should become a central figure in migration studies. There are many more would-be migrants than actual migrants, and they also have deeper impacts on migration processes and local societies. Instead of treating the would-be migrant as a derivative of the category of ‘migrant’, this article establishes it as the primary figure, and argues t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 183-199
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2051-3658
- ISSN:
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2051-364X
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1042716
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uuid:c4941f61-1abb-476d-94f7-1f2ffc103267
- Local pid:
- pubs:1042716
- Source identifiers:
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1042716
- Deposit date:
- 2019-08-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Institute of East Asian Studies
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- Copyright: © Institute of East Asian Studies, Sogang University 2014. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2014.3
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