Full Description
China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to Chinese development.
Using a large body of research, clear and attractive illustrations (maps, tables, and charts) of findings based on census, survey and field data, and selected qualitative material such as migrants' narratives, this book provides an updated, systematic, empirically rich, multifaceted and lively analysis of migration in China.
Contents
1. Migration, the State and the Household 2. Volumes and Spatial Patterns of Migration 3. The Hukou (Household Registration) System 4. Types and Processes of Migration 5. Gender and Household Strategies 6. Migrants' Experiences in Cities 7. Impacts of Migration on Rural Areas 8. Marriage and Marriage Migration 9. The Chinese Migrant in the 21st Century
