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Reproduction-driven labour migration from China - Biao Xiang | 2021 Hung lecture

This lecture was the keynote presentation of a four-day virtual conference called "Creating Commons in an Era of Precarity: A Multi/Trans-Disciplinary Conference on Migration and Asia": https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/... FEATURING Opening remarks, by Helen Lansdowne, Associate Director, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI), University of Victoria (UVic), Canada Speaker introduction 1:37, by Feng Xu, Associate Professor, UVic Political Science Keynote lecture 5:00 ABOUT THE TALK Why do Chinese workers pay up to $8000 agent fees to leave the rising global economic centre, for dead-end jobs overseas? Labour out-migration from China has become driven by needs in social reproduction. Instead of being compelled by unemployment or poverty, people migrate to accumulate savings quickly to buy houses, get married, pay for their children’s education, and arrange medical and social care. These activities sustain and enhance life on a daily and generational basis, and constitute “social reproduction.” Reproduction-driven labour migration results from the monetization of reproduction activities in China, and in turn makes migrants more vulnerable. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Biao Xiang is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford University and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. Biao Xiang’s research addresses various types of migration – internal and international, unskilled and highly skilled, emigration and return migration, and the places and people left behind – in China, India and other parts of Asia. Through the lens of migration, he has examined a wide range of political economy issues, including state-society relations, labour, social reproduction, and mobility governance. In his recent research he asks why commercial recruitment intermediaries have become so prominent in unskilled labour migration in east Asia – a finding that contradicts the assumption that modern institutions and technologies have a dis-embedding and dis-intermediating effect. ABOUT ALBERT HUNG LECTURE SERIESE The Albert Hung lecture series is named in honour of Chinese entrepreneur Albert Hung Chao Hong who received an Honourary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Victoria in 2005. Dr. Hung believes in the importance of education and has funded the Hung lecture series at CAPI since 2007. The series provides an opportunity for a distinguished visitor to address a community audience on a topic of current public interest in the Asia-Pacific region. More: https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/... ---------- 8 June 2021, online.