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.
Global Production, Finance and Labour research group
A multidisciplinary research group that explores inclusive and sustainable growth.
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.
Global Production, Finance and Labour research group
A multidisciplinary research group that explores inclusive and sustainable growth.