Annexes : bibliographie
Langue : anglais

Résumé : This article looks at the unpredictable and multidirectional migration and citizenship pathways taken by women between China and Taiwan. It highlights the emergence of an increasingly flexible practice of citizenship, which can involve post-divorce return migration and even re-migrations in China and Taiwan. This work identifies nonlinearity, unpredictability and multidirectionality as major features of such pathways. It shows how structural and contingent factors – social, economic, political and health-related – combine with marital and family life to multiply the routes and practices of citizenship. This article also discusses the influence of digital communication on these pathways, blurring the boundaries between territories and identities. It draws on ethnographic research and interviews with Chinese migrants at different stages of their lives, marriages and citizenship statuses. Engaging with the scholarship on migration pathways and flexible citizenship, this article expands discussions on the nonlinearity of migration and on the increasing flexibility of citizenship practices. [résumé éditeur]