Chinese Migrant Women Creating Meaningful Lives Despite Vulnerable Statuses
Chinese Migrant Women Creating Meaningful Lives Despite Vulnerable Statuses

Author(s): Hélène Le Bail
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Chinese Migrant Women; Chinese; migrant; women;
Summary/Abstract: In 2012, it had been nearly twenty years since Ma Li had come to Japan through a marriage arranged by a matchmaking agency. She had divorced six years earlier, but she still lived in the same village as her former husband: “Only the strongest women stayed in the region; the others have left. It takes a strong woman to travel that far to get married.” In 2015, eight years after she left for France, Wang Hong returned to China for the first time to see her mother and her son. “I am 54 years old. My mother is 86. Thanks to her, I am strong. For my family in China, I have been successful. In addition, I succeeded alone, without any support.”

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