Beatriz Carrillo Garcia

Beatriz is a Lecturer in China Studies and is a joint appointment of the China Studies Centre and the Department of Sociology and Social Policy. Her broad research interest is in social development and social change in contemporary China, with particular interest on local governance.

Her work has looked at processes of social inclusion and exclusion of rural migrant workers entering small urban centres, as opposed to those who move to the large metropolises. Her book Small Town China: Rural Labour and Social Exclusion (Routledge 2011) develops that theme through the case study of a county in north China.

More recently her research has concentrated on two projects: one looking at the impact of social policy on health and welfare provision; the other examining the interactions between the new rich and the state, especially in relationship to class formation. A principle concern in her research is the ways in which local governments in less developed areas in China negotiate new institutional arrangements, while attempting to promote a more inclusive economic and social development in their localities.

Beatriz is a member of the editorial board of Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies and of Mexico y la Cuenca del Pacifico (Mexico and the Pacific Rim).

Current teaching

• INGS1002 Global Culture and Society

Grants and awards

• 2009 – 2011 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP0984495 The New Rich and the State in China: The social basis of local power, with Prof. David S.G. Goodman and Dr. Minglu Chen
• 2007 Australian Research Council, Asia Pacific Research Futures Network (ARC-APRFN) Funding support for the symposium: The Regional Impact on Health and Trade Policy of Food Safety Issues in China
• 2003 – 2006 International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) Commonwealth scholarship, Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia

Publications

Books

Carrillo, Beatriz (2011) Small Town China: Rural labour and social inclusion, London & New York: Routledge.

Carrillo, Beatriz and Duckett, Jane (eds) (2011) China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local perspectives, London & New York: Routledge.

Book chapters

Duckett, Jane and Carrillo, Beatriz (2011) Toward an Understanding of China’s Welfare Mix, in: Carrillo, Beatriz and Duckett, Jane (eds) China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local perspectives, London & New York: Routledge: 1-19.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2008) ‘From Coal Black to Hospital White: The new welfare entrepreneurs and the pursuit for a ‘cleaner’ status’ in: David S. G. Goodman (ed.) The New Rich in China. Future rulers, present lives, London & New York: Routledge: 99-111.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2006) ‘Desarrollo de la Agricultura Vietnamita: Reforma Económica y comercio agr'cola’ (Vietnamese Agricultural Development: Economic reform and agricultural trade) in: Hernandez, Roberto (ed) Reforma Agr'cola en Asia Pac'fico (Agricultural Reform in The Asia Pacific), University of Guadalajara Press: Guadalajara, Mexico: 121-142.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2005) ‘Rural-Urban Migration in China: Temporary Migrants in Search of Permanent Settlement’. In: Barclay, Kate and Wayne Peake (eds) 2005, Convergences and Exclusions: Regional Integration and Social Change around the Pacific Rim, University of Guadalajara Press: Guadalajara, Mexico: 206-236.

Articles

Carrillo, Beatriz; Chen, Minglu; and Goodman, David S G (2011) ‘Beyond Asymmetry: Cooperation, conflict and globalisation in Mexico-China relations’, The Pacific Review (forthcoming).

Carrillo, Beatriz (2010) ‘Building a Harmonious Society: County governance and the promotion of social development’, Provincial China Journal, vol. 2, no. 1: 68-89.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2008) ‘China’s Fiscal Decentralization: consequences for the promotion of local development’, Mexico and the Pacific Rim, vol. 11, no. 32: 13-34.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2004) ‘Rural-Urban Migration in China: Temporary Migrants in Search of Permanent Settlement’, Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 1, no. 2.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2004) ‘Decentralization and local processes of social development in the PRC: the case of education in a Shanxi County town’ in: Cribb, Robert (ed), Asia Examined: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2004, Canberra, Australia. Canberra: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) and Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. ISBN 0-9580837-1-1.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2004) ‘Descentralización y desigualdad en el desarrollo regional y local de China’ (Decentralization and Inequality in Regional and Local Development in China), Mexico and the Pacific Rim, vol. 7, no. 21 (Jan. – April).

Carrillo, Beatriz (2002) ‘Privatizando la educación en China’ (Privatising education in China), Mexico and the Pacific Rim, vol. 5, no. 16 (May – August).

Carrillo, Beatriz (2001) ‘Cuatro ciudades chinas: transición y cambio social’ (Four Chinese cities: transition and social change), Mexico and the Pacific Rim, vol. 4, no. 13 (May – August).

Carrillo, Beatriz (2000) ‘Inmigración de origen chino en Columbia Británica’ (Immigration of Chinese origin in British Columbia), Mexico and the Pacific Rim, vol. 3, no. 10 (May – August).

Carrillo, Beatriz (2000) ‘El siglo del cine: trayectoria cinematográfica de China y Japón’ (A Century of Cinema: Cinematic Trajectory of China and Japan), Mexico and the Pacific Rim, vol. 43, no. 9 (Jan. – April).

Carrillo, Beatriz (1999) ‘Los retos de la reforma económica en China’ (The challenges of the Chinese Economic Reform), Mexico and the Pacific Rim, vol. 2, no. 8 (Oct. – Dec.).

Book reviews

Carrillo, Beatriz (2009) Review of: Gender and Chinese Development: Towards and Equitable Society, by Lanyan Chen, Abindong: Routledge, in International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 10, no. 1: 58-60.

Carrillo, Beatriz (2009) Review of: Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People are Shaping Class and Status in China, by Carolyn L. Hsu. Durham and Londond: Duke University Press, in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 1, March 2009

Carrillo, Beatriz (2004) Review of: Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era, edited by Barry J. Naughton and Dali L. Yang. Cambridge University Press, in The China Journal No. 54, July 2005

Invited presentations

June 12, 2008 ‘China’s new welfare entrepreneurs’, presentation given at the Ministry of the Economy – Jalisco Section (SEPROE Jalisco), Guadalajara, Mexico.

June 13, 2008 ‘Evolution and representation of private entrepreneurs in China’s public goods sector’ presentation given at the International Meeting on China, University Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Guadalajara (CUCSH – UdeG), Mexico.

April 10, 2008 'China's socio-economic transformations and health challenges in a period of rapid change' presentation given at the seminar Understanding Institutional Reform in the Chinese Health Sector, Graduate School for Health Practice, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia.

March 12, 2008 'Health Care Reform: the greatest challenge to a healthy China', Australia China Friendship Society, Sydney, Australia.

January 15-26, 2007 ‘Economic Reform, Urban Growth and Rural Migrant Labor in Reform China’, presented at the UTS: A Workshop from Local China. Learning and Understanding the Chinese, Tec de Monterrey Guadalajara, Puebla and Mexico City Campuses, Mexico.

August 24, 2006 ‘Private involvement in the provision of a public good: China´s experience with health reform and the parallels with the Mexican case’, presented at the University Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

October 18, 2005 ‘Chinese social security reform: funding and delivery changes in the health care system’, presented at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE-UTS), Sydney, Australia.

Conference paper presentations

‘Social Policy Priorities and Health System reform: China and Mexico in comparative perspective’ presented at the WREAC Workshop on China and Latin America, the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 11 May 2011.

‘Class as Family Narrative: The historical determinants of Status in China’ (with David S.G. Goodman and Minglu Chen), presented at the International Workshop on Class and Class Consciousness in China, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 31 Jan. – 2 Feb., 2011.

‘Urban expansion and changing education governance: private schools in a north China county’, presented as part of the panel Boundary Reconstruction in China’s Expanding Urban Spaces: Comparative perspectives on governance, citizenship and social stratification, at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, 25-28 March 2010.

‘Beyond Asymmetry: Cooperation, conflict and globalisation in Mexico-China relations’ (with David S.G. Goodman and Minglu Chen), presented at the Worldwide Universities Network Workshop on Asia-Pacific FDI in Mexico and competing regions: the impact of the current Global Economic Crisis, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, 21-22 Jan., 2010.

‘Emerging health care services provision patterns in small towns and the effects on rural migrants’ access to services’, part of the panel Inequality in Contemporary China at the Chinese Studies Association of Australia 11th Biennial Conference, The University of Sydney, 9-11 July, 2009.

‘From Black Coal to Hospital White: The new welfare entrepreneurs and the pursuit of a ‘cleaner’ status’, part of the panel China’s Middle Class Formation in Relation to Local Detail, Regional and Global Comparisons at the Chinese Studies Association of Australia 10th Biennial Conference, Griffith University, 27-29 June 2007.

‘Building a harmonious society: County Governance and the Promotion of Social Development’, presented at the Provincial China Workshop on The county party-state: Local governance in horizontal and vertical perspectives, Taiyuan, P.R.C., 19-21 Sept. 2006.

‘Financing a more equitable health care system’, presented at the seminar China’s Health Care Reform Challenges, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), 4 Sept. 2006.

‘Funding and delivery changes in the health care system: China and Mexico a comparative perspective’, presented at the international seminar China y America Latina: Las relaciones con la nueva potencia mundial (China and Latin America: the relationships with the new world power), ITESM Monterrey, Mexico. 29-30 August 2006.

‘Building Social Safety Nets in a Transition Economy: China’s experience with social security reform at the county level’, presented at the Third EASP International Conference on GDPism and Risk: Challenges for Social Development and Governance in East Asia, University of Bristol, UK 12-13 July 2006.

‘Decentralization and local processes of social development in the PRC: the case of education in a Shanxi County town’, presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Canberra, Australia 29 June – 2 July 2004.

‘The migrant as ‘other’ in the formation of new urban spaces’, presented at the workshop Place Imaginaries, mobilities, and the limits of representation, organized by the UNSW-UTS Centre for Research on Provincial China, Hunter Valley, Australia 7-9 June 2004.

‘New Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: Rural migrants and social development’, presented at the conference Social Inequality Today, organized by the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia 12 Nov. 2003.

‘Rural-Urban Migration in China: Temporary migrants in search of permanent settlement’, presented at the workshop The Domestic Impact of Regional Integration in the Pacific Rim, organized by the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico. Jan. 2002.

Conference and workshop convenor and organizer

Health and Borders in China, India and the Indian Ocean Region, UTS China Research Centre and Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network, UTS, Sydney, Australia, 28-29 October 2009 (workshop)

Social problems and the local welfare mix in China: Public policies and private initiatives, Provincial China Workshop (co-organized with Prof. Jane Duckett), UTS and Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research, Nankai University, Tianjin, P.R.C. 27-31 October 2008

Class and Place: Cosmopolitan perspectives on a ‘grounded’ sensorium, Institute for International Studies (IIS) annual workshop, UTS. Sydney, Australia. 18-19 June 2007

The Regional Impact on Health and Trade Policy of Food Safety Issues in China, UTS China Research Group, Institute for International Studies (UTS), and the ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APFRN). Sydney, Australia. 8 March 2007 (Workshop)

China’s Health Care Reform Challenges, UTS China Research Group, Institute for International Studies (UTS), and Graduate School of Health Practice (Charles Darwin University), Sydney, Australia. 4 Sept. 2006 (Workshop)