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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X221090245
Keywords
Migration; platform labour; social integration; distinction; China
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- National Social Science Foundation [21CXW014]
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This article discusses the contradictory integration constraints faced by Chinese rural migrant workers in the context of capitalist migration and urbanization. It introduces the concept of platformed distinction work to explain how online platforms play a complex role in enhancing migrant workers' participation in the digital economy while also defining their labor as disadvantaged. The article reveals the multilayered and complicated relations between migration and platformization.
This article describes how Chinese rural migrant workers are subject to the contradictory integrated regimes of capitalist advocates of migration and urbanisation, which are, in reality, distinctive integrating constraints. Online platform work has become a key site for rural migrant workers in China to experience and experiment with obfuscating sets of promotions and disciplines about labour, migration and urbanness. We propose the concept of platformed distinction work to explain how platforms have played a complex and multifunctional role that enhances migrant workers' participation in the digital economy while concurrently defining and conditioning their labour as disadvantaged distinct work. This dual process of migrant workers' social integration and distinction in platform work reveal the multilayered, complicated relations between migration and platformisation.
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