Perceiving and Deflecting Everyday Poverty-Related Shame: Evidence from 35 Female Marriage Migrants in Rural China

@article{Zhang2020PerceivingAD,
  title={Perceiving and Deflecting Everyday Poverty-Related Shame: Evidence from 35 Female Marriage Migrants in Rural China},
  author={Guanli Zhang},
  journal={Social Inclusion},
  year={2020},
  volume={8},
  pages={123-131}
}
  • Guanli Zhang
  • Published 28 April 2020
  • Economics
  • Social Inclusion
This research examines how poverty is perceived and deflected by a group of female cross-provincial marriage migrants in contemporary rural China. It presents accounts of poverty-related shame in everyday village life. Known as migrant wives, respondents in this research have experienced both absolute and relative poverty over the course of their lives. The personal lament of insufficiency and the social discourse of poverty respectively underpin internal and external poverty-related shame… 
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