GENDER EQUITY

Gender Self Identity about Migration in Contemporary China

Gender Self Identity about Migration in Contemporary China

Introduction

The phenomenal globalization process has resulted in the establishment of several global networks of migrants. For this reason, global migration has evolved as a crucial issue all across the globe in the last few decades. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the essential social issue prevalent throughout the world: gender equity amongst immigrants. The area of the world that has been chosen to be focused on, for this reflection, is China. The research would include the current situation of women in migration and then acquiring a self identity in China, the place they have migrated to. Also, the study would present the existing policy in China regarding the migration of women and the rights reserved for them after migration. The paper would conclude with a recommendation on how self identity of women may be improved.

Situation of Women Self Identity and Migration

Migration to contemporary China requires being realized in terms of the surprising economic transformation in China since the initiation of the economic reforms. The country's economy has developed between eight and twelve percent annually for more than twenty years. Nevertheless, this development has majorly concentrated on big cities. The rate of growth in such areas has been significantly greater compared to the national average, whereas it is quite low in the interior that is far away from such prosperous areas. The development in such prosperous regions has yielded a significant demand for labour that has been considerably satisfied by the migration of people from the less developed and rather poorer areas in the interior China. The number of immigrants in China approximately varies from eighty to a hundred and fifty million (Delia, 2005, pp. 29).

Apart from the income and work, migration has several rather less tangible impacts on women. The women migrating to contemporary China are greatly impacted by their experiences. They lead a really different life, one in the destination regions, compared to the rural women, and they are influenced by the urban culture. In the event that they go back to the rural areas, they carry along varying expectations of marital relations and women's roles, greater aspirations for children, and higher demands of the living standards. Their savings and knowledge might facilitate them to establish small ventures or look for novel means of making money. Urbanization has historically brought about significant variations in the lives and roles of women. Such variations may filter down to the rural areas in the event that the relations amid rural and urban areas are adequately fair and do not operate as autonomous worlds (Goldstein, 2005, pp. 148-150).

The increase in circulatory migration that entails the immigrants to go forwards and backwards amid the destination areas and their homes has made a major contribution to the isolation amid the rural and urban areas. At times, it is asserted that migration endorses female independence. Any person does not have absolute independence within the family-based society of rural ...