Guolin Gu (CASAS’ member) has published with Wen Fan an article in Land Use Policy. Abstract: Debates over state-led land expropriation in rural China often center on whether it constitutes victimization or empowerment. This paper reconciles these competing narratives by examining the health and well-being impacts of land expropriation on two groups: (1) individuals who…
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Self-care in transnational migrant households: body-mapping of stressors and care strategies of Chinese women stayers
Carlo John B. Arceo, CASAS’ member, has published this article with Jixia Lu & Dongsheng Wang in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Abstract: Over the past decade, arguments on migration as a livelihood in rural China have focused on labour reallocation, household power dynamics, women’s triple roles, and stayers’ well-being. Wherein, care for…
Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China: The commodification of agricultural inputs and the invisible dispossession of smallholders
Yunan Xu, CASAS’ member, has published with Yiyuan Chen an article in World Development. Abstract: China has transitioned from a negligible user of agrochemicals to one of the world’s largest consumers, producers and exporters within just a few decades. The rapid increase in agrochemical use– often amounting to overuse – has raised significant concerns about…
Farmer-farmworkers: cross-border wage labor in northeastern Vietnam-southwestern China region
Bao-Nguyet Dang, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Agriculture and Human Values journal. Abstract: The paper contributes to scholarship on family farm, social reproduction, and labor migration theories. It argues that the emergence of wage labor within the family farm labor structure – and its transformation across time, place, and space – has shifted…
Righteous complicity: the politics of land expropriation in rural China
Guolin Gu, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Why do peasants refrain from resisting dispossession, even when faced with the loss of subsistence, minimal compensation, and limited state enforcement? This paper examines an ethnographic case of decade-long intra-village conflicts following partial land expropriation for railway construction in southwest…





