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Migrant women entrepreneurs in the garment industry in modern China: embedding translocality and feminised Guanxi networks

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  • Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce

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This paper examines the emergence of migrant women entrepreneurs in the garment industry in Guangdong and how they negotiated business and family life in a translocal environment. This paper argues that the success of these women entrepreneurs is the result of two sets of strategies, one of their conscientious efforts in weaving different sets of social networks (guanxi); and second of their willingness to establish translocality as a way of life that enabled them to juggle successfully between entrepreneurship and familism. Being successful entrepreneurs, they are seen as 'superwomen, nu qiang ren by their peers and the general public, but they preferred the label 'women with super strength', qiang nu ren as they seek to balance their entrepreneurship and family life in a translocal environment.

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  • Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, 2016. "Migrant women entrepreneurs in the garment industry in modern China: embedding translocality and feminised Guanxi networks," International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 16(3), pages 335-349.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbglo:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:335-349
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    1. Raushan Aman & Petri Ahokangas & Xiaotian Zhang, 2021. "Migrant women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystems during an external shock: a case study from the healthcare sector in Kazakhstan," Asian Business & Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 20(4), pages 518-548, September.

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