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achel Murphy obtained her PhD in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge, where she subsequently held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, taught courses on revolutions, population and development, and the sociology of media and supervised MPhil and PhD dissertations on migration and development. She was then a research fellow at Pembroke College and the Institute of Chinese Studies, Oxford where she also contributed to teaching in Chinese Politics and Government. Her research interests include:
- Human development: population, gender, health and education
- Internal and international migration
- Agrarian politics, land conflict, rural-urban interaction and urbanisation
- Media, cultural production, communication technologies and cultural politics
In press publications include a co-authored paper in the Journal of Peasant Studies on land conflicts and rural-rural migration, an article in Critical Asian Studies on the use of media in the anti-corruption education of cadres, and book contributions on the impact of media communications on development and on the funding of compulsory education in rural China. Current projects include working with Dr Frank Laczko (IOM, Geneva) to edit a book on migration policy in China and writing a monograph on human development and well-being in China.
Rachel Murphy is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for East Asian Studies
Selected Publications
Murphy, R & & V.L Fong (2006) (eds/contributor) Chinese
Citizenship: Views from the Margins (London: Routledge).
Murphy, R (2004) ‘Turning Chinese Peasants into Modern Citizens: ‘Population Quality’, Demographic Transition, and Primary Schools’, The China Quarterly, 177, (March):1-20.
Murphy, R (2004) ‘Chinese Ethnography of Rural State and Society: An Introduction’ in China Along the Yellow River, by J. Cao (trans. N. Harman) (London: Routledge).
Murphy, R (2004) ‘The Impact of Labour Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Context and the Lifecourse’, in On the Move: Women and Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary China, ed. by A. Gaetano and T. Jacka (New York: Columbia University Press), 227-262.
Murphy, R (2003) ‘Fertility and Distorted Sex Ratios in Rural China: Culture, State and Policy,’ , Population and Development Review, 29 (4) (December): 595-626.
Murphy, R (2002) How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China (New York: Cambridge University Press).
