Wenchao Wei
ww520@york.ac.uk
I started in November 2007 as a PhD student at the center of Women's Studies at the University of York. I graduated from the University of Northampton in July 2007 and received my MA degree in Women's Studies (dissertation topic was about globalisation, industralisation and their influence on China's female rural-to-urban migrants).
With my doctorial research I want to explore the migration experiences of women from mainland China; I plan to focus on the job crisis in which most Chinese female migrants are caught in the hosting country. In particular, I will explore the pressures they encounter from both their families and outside society when looking for a suitable job, providing some explanations on the obstacles which stop the group who were highly educated skilled professionals in China from finding a suitable job. Other research interest include: gender and violence, global citizenship, transnational marriage, and gender, development and social change in China.