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July 26, 2026Critical SociologyOpen Access

Extended case across time and borders: Global ethnography of factory regimes, migration channels, and skill transfer in China, Vietnam, and Japan

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KSKaxton SiuAKAnita Koo

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Comparative global ethnography examines labor regimes and migration channels, indicating complex governance dynamics.

Key Points

  • This research aims to analyze labor migration dynamics across Asia by using Burawoy’s extended case method and connecting labor and migration regime studies.
  • Operationalized Burawoy’s extended case method across its forces-connections-imaginations triad.
  • Conducted long-term ethnography in Shenzhen and Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Analyzed migration corridors under Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program.
  • Conceptualized factory domination as 'conciliatory despotism' combining coercion with brokerage.
  • Identified the TITP as providing mostly symbolic certification for skill transfer.
  • Proposed a framework linking efficiency governance and social governance to critique current labor governance.

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Siu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a65a7e0d3aea3239cd78808https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205261469068
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