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dc.contributorDepartment of Applied Social Sciencesen_US
dc.creatorZhan, Yen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-18T04:02:35Z-
dc.date.available2021-11-18T04:02:35Z-
dc.identifier.issn0030-851Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10397/91608-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of British Columbiaen_US
dc.subjectResettlementen_US
dc.subjectMigrantsen_US
dc.subjectWaitingen_US
dc.subjectResettled peasantsen_US
dc.subjectRural to urban migrationen_US
dc.subjectSuspensionen_US
dc.subjectEscape suspensionen_US
dc.subjectSegregated developmenten_US
dc.subjectFinancial speculationen_US
dc.subjectAssetizationen_US
dc.subjectDevelopment induced resettlementen_US
dc.subjectRent derived from state provided assetsen_US
dc.subjectNew urban residentsen_US
dc.subjectImagined continuation of growthen_US
dc.subjectResettlement housing compensationen_US
dc.titleSuspension 2.0 : segregated development, financial speculation, and waiting among resettled peasants in urban Chinaen_US
dc.typeJournal/Magazine Articleen_US
dc.identifier.spage347en_US
dc.identifier.epage369en_US
dc.identifier.volume94en_US
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5509/2021942347en_US
dcterms.abstractSince the late 2000s, many rural-to-urban migrants in China have lost their rural land to development plans, resettled in designated areas, and acquired formal urban residency. They stopped migrating, and have apparently ended their life of “suspension,” namely protracted mobility. While most existing research literature on this population foregrounds the issue of land dispossession, this article argues that, following resettlement, these former migrants’ lives can be more accurately characterized as a state of suspension instead of dispossession. Many resettled young adults, while having secured livelihood thanks to state compensation, are excluded from the technology- and capital-intensive developments to which they have lost their land. Some of these young people instead became petty speculators and rentier capitalists by liquidating their compensated assets through mortgages, private lending, rent, and other financial means. They are constantly waiting for the next investment opportunity and windfall gain. Although physically settled down and economically secure, they remain anxious and unsettled. They continue to orient their lives towards an elusive future rather than striving to transform the here and now, thus living in a state that I call “suspension 2.0.”en_US
dcterms.accessRightsembargoed accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPacific affairs, June 2021, v. 94, no. 2, p. 347-369en_US
dcterms.isPartOfPacific affairsen_US
dcterms.issued2021-06-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000656845900007-
dc.description.validate202111 bcwhen_US
dc.description.oaNot applicableen_US
dc.identifier.FolderNumbera1072-n01-
dc.identifier.SubFormID43883-
dc.description.fundingSourceRGCen_US
dc.description.fundingTextF-PP6Ven_US
dc.description.pubStatusPublisheden_US
dc.date.embargo2022.06.30en_US
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