Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market

Litzinger, Ralph

doi:10.1525/ae.2001.28.1.247

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“…In addition, in 1958, China enacted the household registration system, which inhibits free migration and essentially ties rural people to the land where they were born. 19 Thus, the lineage structure in rural villages has remained stable since 1958 (Solinger, 1999). To provide additional evidence to support our results, in the robustness check section we add job characteristics dummies and working location dummies into the baseline model and check how these may affect our results.…”

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“…Solinger (1999) points out during the Maoist period, strict policies against internal migration froze surname patterns in rural China, which were largely determined exogenously by imperial land settlement policies and natural disasters. Peng (2004) also states that the village composition is independent of economic activities.…”

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“…In addition, in 1958, China enacted the household registration system, which inhibits free migration and essentially ties rural people to the land where they were born. Thus, the lineage structure in rural villages has remained stable since 1958 (Solinger, 1999).…”

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Lineage-based heterogeneity and cooperative behavior in rural China

Pan²,

Sarangi

2018

Journal of Comparative Economics

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This paper investigates how lineages, the commonly found organizations in rural villages of China, affect people's intra-and cross-lineage cooperative behavior. We use data from the Chinese Household Income Project Survey 2002, which exclusively contains information about the lineage structure in these villages allowing us to classify three levels of lineage-based heterogeneity. Our identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of lineage-based heterogeneity. We find evidence that people in a village with higher lineage-based heterogeneity are less likely to exhibit reciprocity behavior within lineages or contribute to the provision of public goods that are jointly shared across lineages. The estimation results remain robust to the inclusion of various control variables and additional background characteristics. Finally, we examine a number of other economic outcomes and find that more homogenous villages do better than other types of villages.JEL classification: D71; O12; O17; H41 Keywords: Cooperation; Lineage Networks; Reciprocity; Local Public Goods; China 1 We are grateful to R. Carter Hill for several suggestions. We are thankful to the editor Daniel Berkowitz and two anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions. We also thank

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Lineage-based heterogeneity and cooperative behavior in rural China

Pan²,

Sarangi

2018

Journal of Comparative Economics

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“…The registration system has led to the institutional exclusion of migrants in China's cities, and has left many migrants with a kind of secondclass citizenship (Solinger 1999;Wu and Webster 2010, 1). Yet today migrants often have a choice of whether or not to transfer their household registration to their migration destination, even if this choice entails costs which vary across cities.…”

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THEHUKOUSYSTEM, RURAL INSTITUTIONS, AND MIGRANT INTEGRATION IN CHINA

Tyner¹,

Yuan²

2016

J East Asian Stud

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This article presents evidence that factors in rural areas influence migrant integration into China's cities. We argue that the value of the rural registration influences migrants' decision-making and identities by creating a cost to registration transfer to the city, and that the rural land system interacts with the household registration system to inhibit migrant integration. We test novel hypotheses derived from a simple model of migrant integration, finding connections between rural sending area factors and migrant integration in the city. We test these hypotheses using survey data from two surveys of rural-to-urban migrant workers and publicly available economic data. We find that migrants from areas with higher levels of economic development are less likely to desire registration transfer to the city. We also find that landholding and weaker rural and rights are associated with lower levels of social integration in the city.

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“…Since Solinger's influential work on a divided citizenship in Chinese cities [7], the hukou system has been widely known to the academic community as being the major institutional provision in dividing the migrant workers in cities and the city dwellers into two different categories of citizens, entitled with different citizenship rights and identities. Xu's study goes further upon this institutional approach by identifying four different subcategories of institutions that have distinct mechanisms of influencing the citizenship practices and identity of the peasant workers.…”

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