Julie Y. Chu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor her knowledge of the deadly risks in transit and the exploitative labor conditions abroad. The sense of imminent departure enchants her every move and overshadows the banalities of her present life. In this engrossing ethnographic account of how the Fuzhounese translate their desires for mobility into projects worth pursuing, Julie Y. Chu focuses on Fuzhounese efforts to recast their social horizons beyond the limitations of "peasant life" in China. Transcending utilitarian questions of risks and rewards, she considers the overflow of aspirations in the Fuzhounese pursuit of transnational destinations. Chu attends not just to the migration of bodies, but also to flows of shipping containers, planes, luggage, immigration papers, money, food, prayers, and gods. By analyzing the intersections and disjunctures of these various flows, she explains how mobility operates as a sign embodied through everyday encounters and in the transactions of persons and things.
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读了第五章
评分福州偷渡客民族志扎实但文献太多让故事散乱。农民随着改革开放(的经济发展)和户口制度(的结构劣势),向往发展(占据道德高地)而走出国门、在海外获得合法身份,寄钱回家盖楼以彰显成功偷渡过程中办理各式法律文件(重新认识国家和法律)、找蛇头寻找“好”的海陆空路线、与签证官来回通信、学习商务英语、学习用笔签名、假结婚/见家属、学坐飞机、在机场与海关争执、去法庭申请政治庇护、被遣返后再尝试、不断(凭信用)借款负债出国、计算运气并向观音佛祖祈祷。第三部分谈美元纸钱比人民币纸钱更受认可,阴间财富成为了一种迷信,留在福州的女性要么努力养家要么任意花钱成天打麻将,小孩无人管教不学习长大后被迫与父辈一样偷渡,久未成功偷渡的男性遭到歧视被视为是失败者,强调运气的麻将社交有意思要深入啊,可惜未采访在海外的福州人。M
评分事无巨细,各种理论。。但民族志还是非常扎实的。
评分读了第五章
评分well written. i found the language style in the introduction too ambiguous and suggesting. but once it gets to fieldwork materials, it is very clear. i like the theoretical frame of the book.
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