ABSTRACT
This is a book about women who, at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries, left their homes in rural China to seek work in urban
centers, joining what has been characterized as the biggest peacetime wave of internal migration the world has ever seen. It is based primarily on ethnographic research with rural migrant women living in China’s capital city, Beijing, and on an analysis of these women’s stories of their experiences of migration and life in the city.
