Biography
Bowen Xia is a PhD Student in the Department of International Development at KCL. She holds an MSc in International Migration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSocSc in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. She is interested in the research of rural-urban migration, gender and migration intersectional inequalities. She works with feminist visualization methodologies. Her PhD project explores the interaction between rural-urban migration and gender relations through the lens of changes in household division of labor and women’s bargaining power.
Research
Thesis title: 'Dagongmei reinvented: A mixed-methods study of gender relations and women's rural-urban migration in Qinghai and Yunnan, China'
PhD supervision
- Principal supervisor: Dr Charlotte Goodburn
- Secondary supervisor: Dr Ye Liu
Further details
Research
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
Research
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.