Creating continuity in social transformation: an ethnographic study of migrant workers' spring festival family reunion rituals in China

This dissertation offers an ethnographic account of "the world's largest annual human migration": the family reunion ritual practiced by hundreds of millions of Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers, who work in cities and travel back to the countryside during the lunar New Year (the...

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Main Author: Li, Meng
Other Authors: Muñoz, Kristine L.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2014
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1480
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5556&context=etd