Abstract
AbstractThe UN’s Sustainable Development Goals encourage states to implement social assistance as China has recently done. However, ethnography, guided by field theory, conducted in eight villages in Shanxi Province, reveals interactions between poverty, patriarchy, and migration with unanticipated consequences for social assistance and gender dynamics. Forced back to patrilocal villages by falling urban job opportunities, migrant women find employment more easily than men. They exploit their city-learned skills largely to protect their husband’s face against poverty-related shame, and to field abuse when seeking social assistance. Thus, ignoring culture when implementing social assistance can undermine its effectiveness and negatively affect women.
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