Grafted Beauty, Complex Identity: Exploring Female Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in China's Beauty Service Industry
Published online on July 08, 2025
Abstract
Journal of Sociology, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 63-82, March 2026.
This study applies the concept of identity grafting, a dynamic process of selectively recombining rural and urban identity markers, to examine how young female migrant workers in Beijing's beauty service industry negotiate identity. Drawing on semi-...
This study applies the concept of identity grafting, a dynamic process of selectively recombining rural and urban identity markers, to examine how young female migrant workers in Beijing's beauty service industry negotiate identity. Drawing on semi-...