Rural Urban Migration In China

Author : Li Sun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811080937

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Rural Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China by Li Sun Pdf

This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies. It explores the contribution of migrant workers to the Chinese economy, the impact of changes within the ‘hukou’ system (household registration) and the impact of recent migration policies promoting rural-urban migration and targeting key events during migrant workers’ migration trajectories - job-seeking, wage exploitation, work injuries and illness - namely the corresponding ‘Skills Training Program for Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Managing Wage Payment to Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Migrant Workers Participating in Work-Related Injury Insurance’, and the ‘New Rural Medical Cooperative Scheme’ (Health Insurance). Through in-depth interviews, it examines how when facing such challenges, migrant workers choose to either make a claim under existing policies, or use other coping strategies. The book notably proposes a typology of “coping” which includes a variety of administrative coping, political coping and social coping, and considers how workers in China harness the power of civil groups and social networks.

Author : Lena Kaufmann
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048552184

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Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China by Lena Kaufmann Pdf

How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency.

Author : Zhongshan E. T. Al YUE
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814641661

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Social Integration of Rural-Urban Migrants in China by Zhongshan E. T. Al YUE Pdf

This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers. The book provides an updated, systematic, empirically rich, and multifaceted analysis of migrant integration, its determinants and consequences in China. It integrates insights from the perspective of sociology, population studies, social psychology, and public health to help us understand how and why migrants integrate, the role of migrant networks in social integration, and the relationship between integration of migrants and their mental health and settlement intentions.

Author : Wenbao Qian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019214894

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Rural-urban Migration and Its Impact on Economic Development in China by Wenbao Qian Pdf

Using five Chinese villages as the research material, this study provides first hand information about rural-urban and rural-rural migration in China after 1980. It aims to compare the results of the survey with two other theories on the nature of rural-urban migration.

Author : Lincoln H. Day,Ma Xia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315484075

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Migration and Urbanization in China by Lincoln H. Day,Ma Xia Pdf

Based upon an analysis of a national survey of migration conducted in late 1986 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, this book provides analyses of the volume and direction of movement, the characteristics and motivation of those who move, and the consequences of their moving.

Author : Zheng Xin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000834482

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Rural-Urban Migration in China by Zheng Xin Pdf

This book attempts to document and analyse the complicated role new media play in the adaptation and integration of China’s new generation of migrant workers. By analysing the interviews and observations of more than 500 migrant workers under the age of 25 between 2010 and 2015, the author tries to understand how new media shape the experiences of this significant group of people at different stages of their lives. This study profiles the daily life of this new generation of migrant workers and examines the intricate connections between media and the reconstruction of migrant workers’ identity, as well as their urban life adaptation and social inclusion. Not only is their interaction with new media a key factor in decisions to migrate to the city in the first place, but it continues to play a crucial role in how their outlook on life, sense of identity, lifestyle, personal relationships, and aspirations change as they navigate their new environment. These findings reveal the impact of new media on China’s accelerating urbanization and modernization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary China studies, and those who are interested in the urbanization of China in general.

Author : Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317460619

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Rural Women in Urban China by Tamara Jacka Pdf

Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particular ways in which they talk about those experiences, and how those experiences affect their sense of identity. Through first-hand accounts of actual migrant workers, the author provides valuable insights into how rural women negotiate rural/urban experiences; how they respond to migration and life in the city; and how that experience shapes their world view, values, and relations with others. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender and social change, and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level.

Author : Arianne M. Gaetano,Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231127073

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On the Move by Arianne M. Gaetano,Tamara Jacka Pdf

'On the Move' looks at the fate of women in recent rural-urban migration in China. An estimated 100 million people have moved into China's cities since the beginning of economic modernization, often to work for the lowest wages in hazardous occupations.

Author : Gordon McGranahan,Cecilia Tacoli
Publisher : IIED
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 9781843696179

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Rural-urban Migration in China by Gordon McGranahan,Cecilia Tacoli Pdf

Author : Loraine A. West,Yaohui Zhao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028577000

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Rural Labor Flows in China by Loraine A. West,Yaohui Zhao Pdf

Comprises 12 papers which explore the extent and nature of rural-urban migration in China during the 1980s and 1990s. Examines the characteristics of migrants at the individual, household and community levels and investigates the organizational aspect of labour flows. Analyses the effects of migration on rural and urban areas. Includes a chapter on the development of labour migration from Mexico to the USA.

Author : Fulong Wu,Fangzhu Zhang,Chris Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135095277

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Rural Migrants in Urban China by Fulong Wu,Fangzhu Zhang,Chris Webster Pdf

After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but owner-occupied settlements developed semi-formally by ex-farmers turned small-developers and landlords who rent shockingly high-density rooms to rural migrants, who can outnumber their landlord villagers. A strong state, matched with well-organised landlords collectively represented through joint-stock companies, has meant that it has been relatively easy to grow the city through demolition of these soft migrant enclaves. The lives of the displaced migrants then enter a transient phase from an informal to a formal urbanity. This book looks at migrants and their enclave ‘villages in the city’ and reveals the characteristics and changes in migrants’ livelihoods and living places. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book analyses how living in the city transforms and changes rural migrant households, and explores the social lives and micro economies of migrant neighbourhoods. It goes on to discuss changing housing and social conditions and spatial changes in the urban villages of major Chinese cities, as well as looking into transient urbanism and examining the consequences of redevelopment and upgrading of the ‘villages in the city’; in particular, the planning, regeneration, politics of development, and socio-economic implications of these immense social, economic and physical upheavals.

Author : Mei Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134356966

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China's Poor Regions by Mei Zhang Pdf

The number of poor people in China is huge, despite recent economic advances. This book investigates the problem of poverty in China's regions, discussing in particular the role of rural-urban migration in reducing poverty. It surveys the distribution and characteristics of poverty, examines anti-poverty initiatives by the Chinese government and includes the results of original research conducted in Shanxi, a typical province in Central China.

Author : Bradley M. Gardner
Publisher : Independent Institute
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598132243

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China's Great Migration by Bradley M. Gardner Pdf

China's rise over the past several decades has lifted more than half of its population out of poverty and reshaped the global economy. What has caused this dramatic transformation? In China's Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation, author Bradley Gardner looks at one of the most important but least discussed forces pushing China's economic development: the migration of more than 260 million people from their birthplaces to China's most economically vibrant cities. By combining an analysis of China's political economy with current scholarship on the role of migration in economic development, China's Great Migration shows how the largest economic migration in the history of the world has led to a bottom-up transformation of China. Gardner draws from his experience as a researcher and journalist working in China to investigate why people chose to migrate and the social and political consequences of their decisions. In the aftermath of China's Cultural Revolution, the collapse of totalitarian government control allowed millions of people to skirt migration restrictions and move to China's growing cities, where they offered a massive pool of labor that propelled industrial development, foreign investment, and urbanization. Struggling to respond to the demands of these migrants, the Chinese government loosened its grip on the economy, strengthening property rights and allowing migrants to employ themselves and each other, spurring the Chinese economic miracle. More than simply a narrative of economic progress, China's Great Migration tells the human story of China's transformation, featuring interviews with the men and women whose way of life has been remade. In its pages, readers will learn about the rebirth of a country and millions of lives changed, hear what migration can tell us about the future of China, and discover what China's development can teach the rest of the world about the role of market liberalization and economic migration in fighting poverty and creating prosperity.

Author : Xin Meng,Chris Manning,Li Shi,Tadjuddin Noer Effendi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Rural-urban migration
ISBN : 1848446446

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The Great Migration by Xin Meng,Chris Manning,Li Shi,Tadjuddin Noer Effendi Pdf

In the next two decades, approximately two thirds of the rural labour force will migrate to urban areas in China and Indonesia. While both countries face similar challenges, the policies implemented and the consequences of these policies are very different. This book examines and compares this large population movement.

Author : Hein Mallee,Frank N. Pieke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136814440

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Internal and International Migration by Hein Mallee,Frank N. Pieke Pdf

Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration.Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration. The book argues for the emergence of a Chinese world system in which internal and international mobility is a central and heterogenous feature. The book presents an unusually rich case study of migration and transnationalism of migrants from southern Zhejiang province in Chinese and European cities, studies of rural-urban migration in booming southern China, implementation of the birth control policy among migrants in Beijing, discrimination and stereotypisation of rural migrants in Shanghai, contract worker teams in Beijing, and forced urban-rural migration during the Cultural Revolution.