Mundane urban (im)mobilities: work, domestic, and family lives of migrant building workers in China

• DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2024.2352316
• Publication Date: 2024-05-23T16:29:34Z
• Authors: Mark Jayne; Wu Siying; Wu Chenhui
• Keywords: Mobilities; Migrant Workers; Domestic Work

Interdisciplinary research from China has generated a wealth of quantitative and qualitative insights into trans-, national, regional, local migration patterns over long short distances through attention to diverse topics, socio-economic groups, case-study locations. Our contribution in this paper is advance recent critical work that directing focus rural-to-urban "circular movements" toward more complex spatialities temporalities. To add value project, we not only engage with studies urban (im)mobilities per se but also elaborate productive new avenues across interdisciplinary mobilities research. Specifically, draw on feminist, materialist, more-than-representational thinking highlight the contingent relatedness migrants' daily lives work, domestic, family times/spaces both within beyond cities. In doing so, show how exploration mundane offers challenge binary depictions city/countryside, home/destination, movement/stasis, belonging/marginalization, moored/unmoordness. The conclusion signposts opportunities.