Based on empirical data collected from multi-sited ethnography, this paper finds that new generation migrant workers tend to individualize their lives early in their working lives, while the process of familization leads to a family-centered traditional transformation in their everyday lifestyles. In the restriction of the urban-rural divided structure, familization forces them into a dilemma of labor reproduction and makes them assume responsibility for family development. In the process of famililization, a patriarchal gender division of labor is constructed, and the newly started family is ...
