![Zhaxi Duojie](/geography/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/people/zhaxi_duojie.jpg?itok=vqBSR7R-)
Dissertation title:
ֲý Farmers in Transition: Urbanization, Development and Labor Migration in Amdo.
Research
My dissertation research focuses on the relationships between state development projects and urban labor migration and how the cultural politics of contemporary Chinese modernity shapes decisions about both house-building and migration. Using ethnographic methods, my doctoral research project examines how social, cultural, political-economic factors intersect to influence ֲý labor migration and with what effects on ֲý identities in Amdo, situated in the northeastern ֲý Plateau, and how experiences of urban living, in turn, change the aspirations and identities of ֲý labor migrants. In my research, I conceive migration as a political process rather than an economic event and make migrant identities and subjectivities a focus of analysis.
Honors and Awards
December 22, 2016. The Center to Advance Research and Teachingin the Social Sciences Research Grant, ֲý, Boulder. “ֲý Farmers in Transition: Urbanization, Development and Labor Migration in Amdo,” $1,000
September 22, 2017: Mabel Duncan memorial Scholarship Award, Department of Geography, ֲý, Boulder, $3,000
March 1, 2018: Awarded anDoctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) grant. The award will support his dissertation research project titled "ֲý Farmers in Transition: Urbanization, Development, and Labor Migration in Amdo."
Faculty Advisor: Emily Yeh