Internal Migration in Contemporary China

by D. Davin

Overview

As China moves from a society controlling all aspects of life, including population movement, to something nearer a market economy, migration has become a live issue. Tens of millions of rural migrants have entered China's cities, meeting discrimination similar to that experienced by economic migrants in the West. This book looks to the reasons why people leave certain areas, the lives of migrants and government policy towards them. It distinguishes different types of migration and looks particularly at marriage migration and the effects of migration on the lives of women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349403738
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/11/1999
Edition description:	1st ed. 1999
Pages:	177
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

DELIA DAVIN is Head of Department and Reader in Chinese Social Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds. She worked in China as an English teacher and a translator for some years in the 1960s. She studied Chinese at the University of Leeds and did postgraduate work in Leeds, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Paris. She was a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of York and a founding member of the Centre for Women's Studies. She has published extensively on women, gender and population in China. Her books include Woman-work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China, China's One Child Family Policy, and Chinese Lives: an Oral History of Contemporary China.

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures List of Chinese-language Newspapers and Magazines Cited in English in the Text Measures and Money Acknowledgements Introduction Migration in China After 1949 An Overview of Migration Since 1978 Reform Era Policies on Population Movement Why People Migrate The Impact of Migration in the Sending Areas Migrant Lives and Impacts in the Destination Areas Women and Migration Marriage Migration Responses to Migration and the Prospects for the Future Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

... Delia Davin's book provides a timely and systematic account of the spatial patterning, demographic trends, causes, impacts, changing state policies, and gender-specific experiences of internal migration in contemporary China. The Journal of Asian Studies

From the Publisher

Looks at the rejection and discrimination of migrants in China and examines why people migrate and what they have to gain or lose by it. As part of this examination, Davin (Chinese social studies, U. of Leeds) studies migration after 1949 and since 1978, and discusses such topics as sex and age discrimination, small town policies, identity cards, educational levels, lifestyle and attitudinal change, construction workers, women and migration, mate selection, and images in the media. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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