Chen Hong Xia is a Migrant Workers in China's Growing Economy

Lower class, uneducated individuals from rural areas commonly move to large cities such as Shanghai and Beijing to find work. Due to being uneducated and desperate for work these individuals are at high risk to being incorporated into modern slavery. Many traffickers trick these victims into working in sweatshops under harsh conditions for little to no pay. Cases of violations of labor standards commonly involve mentally disabled people working illegally under harsh working conditions (“China - Global Slavery Index

Sui Sin Far’s short story, “In the Land of the Free” touches on the reality of being a Chinese immigrant in late-19th century America. The story revolves around a Chinese couple. The husband is ready for his wife, Lae Choo, to arrive from China with their new son, later named Kim. However, due to policies on immigration, the American government was forced to take possession of the child due to a lack of paperwork. However, Far’s short-story has a deeper meaning than just focusing on unfair immigration policies. She takes advantage of the story’s ending to symbolize a rejection of immigrant culture, most especially Chinese immigrant culture, by taking advantage of Kim’s change in behaviors, appearance, and dialect.

Once the Chang family moved into Los Angeles and had their herbalist shop and asparagus farm under way, they realized the need for more laborers. In order to support their wives and kids with groceries, clothing, and education, the Chang’s needed to find the cheapest labor possible while still establishing the farm as a business that could support their income. The cheapest laborers were relatives, and they were for the most part thankful to come and work for Yitang, even if it was not their ideal working situation. One frustration Sam expressed in the book that may correlate to the continuing poor treatment and vision of the Chinese, is that within the Chinese workforce, most hard-working laborers in the railroad, farming, mining, and

We have all been in a situation where we have immigrated to a new country for different reasons regarding, better future, or education. In the book Jade of Peony, Wayson Choy describes a struggle of a Chinese family as they settle in Canada, with their new generation of kids born here, the family struggles to keep their children tied to their Chinese customs and traditions as they fit in this new country. The Chinese culture needs to be more open minded as it limits the future generation’s potential. Chinese culture limitations are seen through the relationship expectations, education, gender roles and jobs.

“It was not easy to live in Shanghai” (Anyi 137). This line, echoed throughout Wang Anyi 's short piece “The Destination” is the glowing heartbeat of the story. A refrain filled with both longing and sadness, it hints at the many struggles faced by thousands upon thousands trying to get by in the city of Shanghai. One of these lost souls, the protagonist, Chen Xin, was one of the many youths taken from his family and sent to live the in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. Ten years after the fact, Chen Xin views the repercussions of the Cultural Revolution internally and externally as he processes the changes that both he, and his hometown have over-gone in the past ten years. Devastatingly, he comes to the conclusion that there is no going back to the time of his childhood, and his fond memories of Shanghai exist solely in memory. This is in large part is due to the changes brought on by the Cultural Revolution. These effects of the Cultural Revolution are a central theme to the story; with repercussions seen on a cultural level, as well as a personal one.

Chinese laborers hold for employment in western regions remained superior to any other immigrant group at the time because of the necessity for

Greeting my friends and teacher! We all know there were around thousand of immigration every years. But do we even know their past story? Or even how they were able to travel here with a low payment of money? My dad's name is Zheng Jian Zhong an immigrated. He was born in FuZhou, a city in China. He immigrated to America at around 1980 in his 20’s. He past through hard labor ever snice he was around 11 years old to earn money for his family. America start to grow and rumors from America was spread all around the world, leading many immigration from different countries, city, state, or even village. When I was young, he always told me story of his past life. Some were sad, and some were happy.

Unlike Westerners, New Year is extremely important in Asian countries. It is a chance to reunite with one’s family after a period of time. Thus, many people, no matter what they do, will try to make time to come back home on this special event. In China, with the overwhelming population, more than 130 million migrant workers try to get back to their home villages. This is the result of the half industrialization process, where the country is caught between its rural agriculture past and rapid economic development present. “Last train home,” a movie directed by Lixin Fan, sheds a light on the difference between the rural and urban areas. At the same time, the movie secretly makes the viewers wonder what they should do if they are in the

Besides educational reason people leave china people they are feeling suffocated, metaphorically and physically, by the environment and communist government. Education is not the only reason people are feeling the need to flee. China has the worst air pollution mainly due to burning coal. Cancer is the number one killer in China and hundreds of thousands of deaths are occur just from the pollution in the air alone. Aside from that they water poses a major threat aswell, 500 million people have trouble accessing clean water. In some cities you can hardly see the sun and children are routinely dying from lead poisoning. While the suppression of communism is not nearly as deadly, people are still leaving becuase they simply don't agree with the communist ideals, and would rather not live under that rule.

For most of its history, Seattle was kind of a separated city dedicated to the apical dominance of the white people, just as any areas in the United states. Colored people are excluded from most jobs, communities, many stores, restaurants, hotels or other commercial establishments. Similar with other western countries, the unfairness is not only towards African Americans as they just commonly concerned, but also towards many other minorities as well with varies reasons for each. Many discussed reasons are leading to the exclusions with Asian Americans in Seattle. Specifically, as for Chinese, they were repelled mainly due to their large occupation of the American job market.

Jia-Chien is the middle daughter who is ambitious in advancing her career as a corporate airline executive, having little time for her family and desiring to quickly move out of the house. Jia-Chien’s position shows how women in modern Taiwan occupy jobs in essentially all job markets, yet the fact that she is an executive contrasts even the modern woman gender role—where women do not typically own managerial positions (Gold 1114). Additionally, the Taiwanese airline she works for “is expanding into new countries by acquiring new airline routes in the international market” (Dilley 48) which compares to how Taiwan desired to globalize through markets such as the United States. However the same statement diverges from the notion that western nations are the dominant forces in globalization and instead, the Taiwanese are now the perpetrators of globalization, exerting its own influence on the international market. It is then revealed that Jia-Chien originally wanted to pursue the culinary arts, actually having much talent for cooking, but in the past her father Mr. Chu forbade her from becoming a chef and even from being in the kitchen. Mr. Chu’s reasoning is that Jia-Chien should have a better life with a university education than him, leading to Jia-Chien’s bitterness to her father and complicating their relationship. Mr. Chu’s seemingly oppressive behavior symbolizes Taiwan’s traditional family values as he has power over his daughter and dictates what she can or cannot do.

I will expand later on this paper about the arenas of constraint that the author wrote about for migrant workers in the conclusion of the first chapter, as it is a topic that needs to be unpacked greatly.

Today, we are in a globalizing world that connect different places around the world together for corporation. And the reason we are in this globalizing world is because it creates cheaper products. To illustrate, similar to the article "In China, the Human Costs That Are Built Into an iPad" in the New York Time by Charlies Guhigg and David Barboza, the iPhones are designed in America and made in China because Chinese factories can produce the iPhones faster and cheaper than American factories. In other words, globalization corporation is looking for efficiency in time and money. However, , this kind of efficiency is built on the worker's bad working condition, worker's low salary and lack of basic worker's protection and right. In contrast to, providing efficiency not only make life physically difficult for factory workers, but also create difficult in mentally way, that is bringing loneliness to factory workers. The rest of my paper will be based on the book Factory Girls whose author, Leslie T. Chang, stayed in China for many years to interview migrant female workers from rural to urban factory. Along with those first hand information from the books, I claims as globalization looking for efficiency, loneliness happen to those migrant female factory workers because it creates high cost of friendship in city and distance between them and their family in the village.

Another aspect that is looked upon in the documentary is the roles of females in the Chinese society. As it is known, China is a one child policy where a family is supposed to have only one child in the family. So families always hope for baby boys since males are much more respected then females are. They also have a lot less opportunities than males, so that plays a role on females going in to work at sweat shops. Also taken from the documentary, when Jasmine worked a twenty hour shift, she was contemplating on leaving but comes to conclusion that she is in the best situation she could be. It is sad to know that working at a sweat shop is the best situation for anyone.

Secondly, in Wang Anyi’s short story, “The Destination,” Chen Xin experiences the changes in his home city, Shanghai, following a ten-year period of life in rural China. In returning home, Chen Xin embarks on a never-ending journey to find true happiness. As a young man, he volunteers himself to move to the countryside in order to avoid the repercussions of the Communist government. The Cultural Revolution,