Full Description
Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration.Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration. The book argues for the emergence of a Chinese world system in which internal and international mobility is a central and heterogenous feature. The book presents an unusually rich case study of migration and transnationalism of migrants from southern Zhejiang province in Chinese and European cities, studies of rural-urban migration in booming southern China, implementation of the birth control policy among migrants in Beijing, discrimination and stereotypisation of rural migrants in Shanghai, contract worker teams in Beijing, and forced urban-rural migration during the Cultural Revolution.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Frank N. Pieke; Part 1 Chinese internal migration; Chapter 2 The "Static" Decades, Diana Lary; Chapter 3 Internal migration in China, Kam Wing Chan; Chapter 4 Selectivity, migration reasons and backward linkages of rural-urban migrants, Thomas Scharping; Chapter 5 Migrant Construction Teams in Beijing, Victor Yuan; Chapter 6 The floating population and the integration of the city community, Jinhong Ding, Norman Stockman; Chapter 7 Issues in the fertility of temporary migrants in Beijing, Caroline Hoy; Part 2 Zheiiang migrants in Europe and China; Chapter 8 Moving Stones from China to Europe, Mette Thunø; Chapter 9 "To Get Rich Quickly in Europe!" - Reflections on migration motivation in Wenzhou, Li Minghuan; Chapter 10 Patterns of migration from Zhejiang to Germany, Karsten Giese; Chapter 11 "Zhejiang Village" in Beijing, Xiang Biao; Chapter 12 Chinese organizations in Hungary 1989-1996, Pál Nyíri; Chapter 13 Exporting the "Wenzhou model" to Beijing and Florence, Luigi Tomba; Part 3 Migration, identity and belonging; Chapter 14 Female autobiographies from the Cultural Revolution, Nora Sousmikat; Chapter 15 Separation, reunion and the Chinese attachment to place, Charles Stafford; Part 4 Conclusion; Chapter 16 Conclusion, Ronald Skeldon, Graeme Hugo;
