Leave the Fields without Leaving the Countryside: Modernity and Mobility in Rural, Ethnic China

Chio, Jenny

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2011.672858

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“…Tax incentives may draw industry to cities; the building of roads improves accessibility to them from their rural surroundings; the improvement in educational and health services in towns and cities establishes a bond to the region among young people, inducing them to stay on to improve the region. National decentralization policies in China, Bangladesh, Kyrgzstan, Mexico, and elsewhere have already created employment and marketing opportunities for small towns (Sen, ; de Janvry, Sadoulet, and Zhu, ; Maddock, ; Chio, ; Cave, ). Although the towns themselves may continue to decline economically from problems with economies of scale and critical thresholds for the offering of goods and services (Hinderink and Titus, ), they may grow in population as their inhabitants benefit from proximity to more dynamic places.…”

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The Decline of International Migration as an Economic Force in Rural Areas: A Mexican Case Study

Jones

2014

International Migration Review

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Since 2000, and especially since 2007, there has been a reduction in the importance of international migration and remittances in major global sending regions as a result of recession in receiving countries, anti‐immigrant policies, and improvement in economic opportunities in origin countries. A household survey in five rural communities in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1995 and again in 2009 exemplifies these trends. Among youthful adults likely to have first migrated in the decade prior to each of these years, there was a significant drop in the proportion of active migrants. Among the active migrants, stays abroad became longer and more permanent, and their households exhibited fewer remittances, less family business ownership, and fewer local purchases, in 2009 compared to 1995. Finally, non‐migrant households greatly improved their economic status in relation to migrant households over the period, reaching approximate parity with their migrant counterparts.

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Section: The Changing Picture Of International Labor Migrationmentioning

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The Decline of International Migration as an Economic Force in Rural Areas: A Mexican Case Study

Jones

2014

International Migration Review

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“…Tourism is strongly endorsed as a means to enhance rural, non-agricultural activities and diversify livelihoods, especially in regions with high percentages of ethnic minorities (Bhalla & Qiu 2006;Chio 2011). This paper proposed a sustainable livelihoods framework for ethnic tourism based on tourism and livelihoods research, we added cultural capital into livelihood assets considering the character of ethnic community.…”

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Livelihood changes and evolution of upland ethnic communities driven by tourism: a case study in Guizhou Province, southwest China

Chen

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J. Mt. Sci.

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“…My intent, from the beginning, was to produce both written and visual presentations of my research; the film was conceptually a part of my project from the beginning. Therefore, while I strove to communicate parallel critical points and perspectives on ethnic tourism as rural development in China in my writing (Chio , , , ) and film, working in two different modes of representation also meant learning to allow the exigencies of form to determine the final presentation of content . After all, David MacDougall has written, “pictures and writing produce two quite different accounts of human existence, however much filmmakers and writers strive to describe the same things” (:246).…”

Section: Ignoring the Tourist: Film Structure And Argumentmentioning

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Fieldwork, Film, and the Tourist Gaze: Making 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness

Chio¹

2014

Visual Anthropology Review

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Making a film about tourism and being a tourist can often look like the same thing-an outsider with a camera, gazing at a community and people through a lens. And while using a camera in the field can render the ethnographer more legible and logical to one's interlocutors, the production of a film using footage gathered during fieldwork demands an acknowledgment of one's responsibility and relationship to a community and to individuals, qualities not demanded of tourists (or the images they make/take), whose visits are fleeting and temporary. Moreover, a film about tourism challenges viewers to think critically about the consequences of the "tourist gaze" in a destination community. This essay explores the structural, ethical, and social issues faced in making Peasant Family Happiness, a film about two rural, ethnic tourism villages in China. In so doing, I reflect on ethnographic filmmaking as both a component of ethnographic fieldwork and a form of engagement with, and for, viewers. [China, ethnic minorities, ethnographic film, fieldwork, rural villages, tourism]

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Leave the Fields without Leaving the Countryside: Modernity and Mobility in Rural, Ethnic China

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

The Decline of International Migration as an Economic Force in Rural Areas: A Mexican Case Study

The Decline of International Migration as an Economic Force in Rural Areas: A Mexican Case Study

Livelihood changes and evolution of upland ethnic communities driven by tourism: a case study in Guizhou Province, southwest China

Fieldwork, Film, and the Tourist Gaze: Making 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness

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