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Rural Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China

✍ Scribed by Li Sun

Publisher
Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
201
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction (Li Sun)....Pages 1-9
A Glance on Rural–Urban Migration (Li Sun)....Pages 11-38
Concepts and Methods: Coping as a Social Action (Li Sun)....Pages 39-68
Migration Phase and State Intervention in the History of the PRC (Li Sun)....Pages 69-88
Rural–Urban Migration Policies in China Since 2000s (Li Sun)....Pages 89-108
Job Seeking: Social Networks as a Functional Substitute for Government’s Program (Li Sun)....Pages 109-122
Wage Exploitation: Protests as an Emerging Strategy in Chinese Society (Li Sun)....Pages 123-135
Work-Related Injuries: Injured But Not Entitled for Legal Compensation (Li Sun)....Pages 137-151
Illness in Cities: Claimants Appreciate the Usefulness of “Money” (Li Sun)....Pages 153-162
Conclusion and Discussion (Li Sun)....Pages 163-175
Back Matter ....Pages 177-193

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Social Policy; Migration; Urban Studies/Sociology

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