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While there is an emerging body of literature that examines labour resistance within industrial cities in China, there is, however, little research on ethnic minority labour migrants, in particular their interaction with the local state in migrant-receiving cities. This study fills this research gap by focusing on ethnic Yi labour migrants in the Pearl River Delta area. Based on seven and a half months of fieldwork, this article illustrates the ways in which local governments cope with Yi labour disputes on the one hand, and the strategies that Yi migrants developed – emphasizing their minority status while negotiating their labour rights – on the other. The article finds that a strategy to maintain stability by applying patronage selectively to certain ethnic groups cultivates ethnic elites as middlemen to appease workers’ collective disputes in the short term. However, the state’s failure to fully recognize cultural differences of ethnic minorities and to protect their labour rights results in more resistance and marginalization of ethnic minority labourers in the long term. In this way, the Chinese government’s current policy may jeopardize the wider aim of maintaining social order.
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Existing studies have mainly focused on the labor politics of migrant workers but have inadequately accounted for ethnic minority workers, especially with regard to the importance of ethnicity to labor control and resistance. This article focuses on ethnic Yi workers in the Pearl River Delta area of China. By examining the co-ethnic brokerage of ethnic Yi migrant workers, this article illustrates that ethnicity operates in labor control and resistance from three aspects. While ethnicity is used by managers and co-ethnic Yi brokers to implement labor control, it also plays multiple roles in Yi workers’ resistance. Ethnicity is the collective identity forming the Yi workers’ solidarity. Additionally, ethnicity is the instrument used by ethnic Yi brokers to gain their own benefits. Over time, the ethnic interest of group members is compromised by brokers to retain their long-term relationship with factories. Analysis of this complicated picture contributes to the existing studies of labor politics by showing the dynamics of ethnicity in labor control and resistance on the one hand and the complex roles of co-ethnic brokerage on the other hand.
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