Migrant Enclaves in Large Chinese Cities

Fan, Jie; Taubmann, Wolfgang

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“…They also remain excluded from more qualified and stable job opportunities, as well as social welfare (Jie and Taubmann, 2002). With the stable and more qualified jobs in the formal urban labour market reserved for permanent urban residents, rural migrants find themselves restricted to certain sectors, in particular what one might refer to as the more ‘hard’ and ‘dirty’ jobs in the informal urban labour market (Jie and Taubmann, 2002; Gu and Liu, 2002; Zhang, 2005; Liu et al ., 2008). Subsequently, without a permanent job and urban household registration, rural migrants are excluded from urban low-cost public housing.…”

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“…Excluded by the formal urban system, ViCs in China thus become rural migrant enclaves, supplying affordable housing, job opportunities and education for rural migrants (Jie and Taubmann, 2002; Zhang, 2005; Yu, 2008). The poor access to formal market exchange and redistribution spheres pushes rural migrants into the third sphere of economic integration: reciprocity.…”

Section: Barriers To Housing Employment and Education For Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the ‘Village in the City’ in Guangzhou

Lin¹,

Meulder²,

Wang³

2011

Urban Studies

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As with many cities in China experiencing rapid urbanisation, Guangzhou is undergoing a specific form of urban development characterised by the engulfing of rural settlements: a process resulting in the so-called village in the city. This paper uses three modes of economic integration (redistribution, market exchange and reciprocity) as a framework to examine the interrelationship of various development issues and conditions of these villages. It shows that the poor integration in the spheres of state redistribution and formal market exchange pushes migrants to focus on survival strategies that relate to the self-organisation of housing, employment and education. It also makes a critical review of several (re)development projects, each relating to one or more of the different modes of economic integration. This paper concludes that new project approaches that organise a productive interplay between market exchange, redistribution and reciprocity are needed.cities back in 1984, Guangzhou has attracted a considerable share of foreign investment and has stimulated mass migration to its newly established labour-intensive industries. The urban area has expanded markedly in the past 30 years and, consequently, a great number

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Section: Barriers To Housing Employment and Education For Migrantsmentioning

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Section: Barriers To Housing Employment and Education For Migrantsmentioning

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Understanding the ‘Village in the City’ in Guangzhou

Lin¹,

Meulder²,

Wang³

2011

Urban Studies

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“…They have taken on the dirty and demanding jobs, brought income to rural house owners around the cities by renting their rooms, and created revenues for some danwei and local governments by leasing their land and premises to live and work. 33 The challenge of these peasant enclaves in terms of control and regulation, coupled with the contributions of migrant workers in these temporary communities, present a dilemma to the municipal authorities of large cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, which struggle to balance between accepting or rejecting them. 34 Although migrant workers have become contributors and increasingly long-term residents in large Chinese cities, they have not been treated fairly and respectfully by employers and authorities, and they fare worse than permanent residents and workers in a variety of rights and amenities such as getting paid and accessing decent housing.…”

Section: Migration To and Migrant Labor In The Chinese City: Adapting To A New Worldmentioning

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Sociological Perspectives on Urban China

Chen

Sun

2006

China Information

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This article provides an integrated review of sociological perspectives and research on seven areas of inquiry regarding change and continuity in urban China over the past two decades or so. We begin with an assessment of the sociological literature on stratification and inequality in light of the state-market debate and its extensions. Then we evaluate the research on social networks as a resilient resource that can influence social stratification and social change. Next we examine the more interdisciplinary research on migration and migrant labor, highlighting its sociological insights. This is followed by a critical look at housing studies that have revealed a new residential landscape in the Chinese city. Then we present our take on the scholarly contributions to urban consumption, followed by a presentation and appraisal of studies of changing urban governance that have focused on the danwei and community. Our final review focus is the critical work on different forms of mobilization and resistance in response to tensions and conflicts from uneven reform and market transition. Following this extended albeit selective review of the rich and diverse literatures, we offer an overall assessment of their dominant themes, disciplinary weights, and diverse approaches. Finally, we advocate for more theorization, comparison, and integration as ways of advancing both sociological and interdisciplinary research on urban China.

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“…Given its sensitivity in the development of the country, illegal land use and construction should be the centre of focus for any meaningful study on rural-urban transition in China. Yet it is largely ignored in the mainstream literature on big cities like Guangzhou (e.g., Li, 2000;Wu, 1998); the recent interest on social segregation of migrant communities (e.g., Gu and Liu, 2002;Jie and Taubmann, 2002;Throp, 2001) has not really touched on the issue from our perspective. Taking these two inadequacies together, then, we want to emphasise that it is important to investigate how peasants have deployed land resources during this formation of new fragmentation.…”

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Rural–urban transition in China: illegal land use and construction

Tang

Chung

2002

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This paper takes issue with the desakota model developed by Terry McGee by elucidating the illegal land use and construction in the rural–urban transition zone in China, with the additional case study of Tianhe Village in Guangzhou City. The paper emphasises the need to examine the geography of illegal activities along the approach of geographies of difference. It has shown that illegal land use and construction is prevalent in rural China. In rural areas where cultivated land has been converted to non‐agricultural purposes, peasants are left with no alternative but to use land and construct buildings illegally. Some have increased their income by leasing out flats to migrant workers, whereas others have not been able to do this. This study has revealed that underneath the positive and integrative picture portrayed by the desakota model is its negative and disintegrative counterpart. Illegal land use and construction is one such example. Unless we incorporate both into our studies, we will not be able to comprehend the urban morphology of Chinese city regions in the new millennium.

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Migrant Enclaves in Large Chinese Cities

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Understanding the ‘Village in the City’ in Guangzhou

Understanding the ‘Village in the City’ in Guangzhou

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