Protests in China: Why and Which Chinese People Go to the Street?
Description: This research seeks to answer why and which Chinese people go to the street to protest. I argue that different sectors of Chinese society differ from each other regarding their tendencies to participate in protest. In addition to their grievances, the incentives to participate in protest and their capacities to overcome the collective action problem all needed to be taken into account. Using individual level data along with ordinary binary logistic regression and multilevel logistic regression models, I first compare the protest participation of workers and peasants and find that workers are more likely than peasants to participate in protests in the context of contemporary China. I further disaggregate the working class into four subtypes according to the ownership of the enterprises they work for. I find that workers of township and village enterprises are more likely than workers of state-owned enterprises to engage in protest activities, while there is no significant difference between the workers of domestic privately owned enterprises and the workers of foreign-owned enterprises regarding their protest participation. Finally, I find that migrant workers, which refers to peasants who move to urban areas in search of jobs, are less likely than urban registered workers to participate in protests.
Description: Photograph of students crowded into the entrance of Library Mall from Highland Street in order to counter protest against representatives of the National Street Preachers Conference who staged an anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Black Lives Matter, and anti-Muslim protest on the UNT campus, March 29 and 30, 2018. The Business Leadership Building can be seen in the background.
Description: Photograph of UNT students' counter-protest of the National Street Preachers anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Black Lives Matter, and anti-Muslim protest on Highland Street on the UNT campus, March 29, 2018. The event was listed on the National Street Preachers Conference website as "Outreach to the University of North Texas." A student in the foreground of the photograph holds a pride flag. The Business Leadership Building is visible in the background.
Description: Protesters raise signs while demonstrating against anti-immigration legislation. One sign reads, in part, "We Mexicans are Not Immagrents [sic] We are on Our Home..."
Description: The flag of El Salvador is held up during a protest march against the anti-immigration measures before the U. S. Congress.
Description: A female protester is interviewed in front of protesters and their children. They gathered at City Hall in Dallas, Texas to show rejection of the anti-immigration bills being debated in the U. S. Senate.
Description: A woman, wrapped in the American flag, is filmed addressing a crowd gathered to protest anti-immigration proposals being debated in the U. S. Senate.
Description: Women hold placards at a protest at Dallas City Hall. Thousands participated in the protest on Saturday outside the City Hall and also there were dozens of banners and posters which asked for "Justice for the undocumented," "Equality of rights," or "No to the wall." But it was a single feeling which united the more than 2,000 persons protesting H.R. 4437 presented to Congress by Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI).
Description: A crowd of protesters carrying signs march in Dallas, Texas against the anti-immigration measures which would endanger undocumented immigrants.
Description: Protesters gather outside Dallas City Hall carrying signs and the flags of the U. S. and Mexico. They gathered to show rejection of anti-immigration proposals being debated in the U. S. Congress.
Description: This article describes the mega march which took place in Dallas in support of the legalization of undocumented immigrants. Dallas police estimated the size of the crowd to at least be 100,000 people. Both the original Spanish article and the English translation are included.
Date: November 15, 1979, 6:00 p.m.
Description: Photograph of three UNT students during the counter-protest against demonstrators on campus. One is holding a sign that reads "Jesus loves you for who you are". The other two are crouched down and holding hands underneath the sign. The original demonstrators are associated with the National Street Preachers Conference. The events took place off of W Highland Street and Willis Library can be seen in the background.
Description: Photograph of UNT students during a counter-protest, held in response to a protest led by demonstrators associated with the National Street Preachers Conference. Students gathered for two days by the Library Mall on W. Highland Street. The flags they are holding represent the LGBT+ community groups. The rainbow flag represent all who identify as members of the LGBT community; the pink, yellow and blue flag represents the pansexual community; and the blue, black, purple, white and pink flag represents the genderfluid community. In the background Willis Library is visible.
Description: Interview with Michael Flight, Argentinian-born immigrant to Roanoke, Texas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Flight's personal experiences of childhood and education in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, Brazil, being a university student, and the September 11, 2001 attacks and aftermath. Additionally, Flight discusses his parents' backgrounds, life under military dictatorship, perspectives on the Cold War, the Argentinian government's inability to manage the economy, the Falkland Islands War, Argentinian politics, effects of hyperinflation, his work in import-export and manufacturing fields, his wife's work in the information technology field, the 2001 economic collapse and ensuing constitutional crisis, the "cacerolazo" and "choripan and a coka" protests, his decision to emigrate, acculturation struggles, the difficulty finding work in the midst of recession, his perspectives on various aspects of American culture and politics, and his participation in the North Texas Caledonian Pipes and Drums Band.
Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a protest by half of Dallas' sanitation workers because of their exclusion from a general pay hike given to city employees.