Author: Lena Kaufmann
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2021-02-19
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9048552184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Liu Xiaoguang
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2020-04-22
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9811208603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mei Zhang
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1134356978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Investigates the problem of poverty in China's regions, discussing rural-urban migration and anti-poverty initiatives by the Chinese government as well as the results of original research.
Author: Gregory Eliyu Guldin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1315293439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chinese urbanization, including the daily life, migration strategies, and life choices of villagers and townspeople, is the focus of this study by Chinese and North American scholars. The study looks at the urbanization process and the vitality of post-reform Chinese society.
Author: Loraine A. West
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Rachel Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-10-08
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 113403377X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China. Labour migration has not only exerted a profound impact on China’s economy; it has also had far-reaching consequences for its social development. This book examines labour migration in China, focusing on the social dimensions of this phenomenon, as well as on the economic aspects of the migration and development relationship. It provides in-depth coverage of pertinent topics which include the role of labour migration in poverty alleviation; the social costs of remittance and regional, gender and generational inequalities in their distribution; hukou reform and the inclusion of migrants in urban social security and medical insurance systems; the provision of schools for migrants’ children; the provision of sexual health services to migrants; the housing conditions of migrants; the mobilization of women workers’ social networks to improve labour protection; and the role of NGOs in providing social services for migrants. Throughout, it pays particular attention to policy implications, including the impact of the recent policy shift of the Chinese government, which has made social issues more central to national development policies, and has initiated policy reforms pertaining to migration.
Author: Beatriz Carrillo Garcia
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2011-04-19
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1136735151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While much has been written about rural migrant workers’ experiences in the big cities, population movements into China’s vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected. This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers experiences in a small town in a north China county. The author explores the processes and institutions that enable or preclude the social inclusion of rural workers into the town’s socio-economic system. Inclusion and exclusion are assessed through an examination of rural workers’ immersion into the urban labour market, their access to welfare benefits and to social services, such as housing, education and health. The book proposes that outside the larger cities there are alternative accounts of urban social change and of the integration of rural migrant workers. It stresses the fact that the particular socio-economic structure of towns, where the state-owned share of the economy has been smaller and where consequently social and private forces have been more active, allowed for a more open inclusion of rural workers. Though shortcomings are still observed, the book suggests that China's transformation may not necessarily result in dysfunctional and socially polarized urban environments. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of China’s rural migrant workers, bottom-up urbanization and small town development, social policy, and more broadly on contemporary social change in China.