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.
Author(s): C. Cindy Fan
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1 Migration, the state, and the household......Page 16
2 Volume and spatial patterns of migration......Page 34
3 The hukou (household registration) system......Page 55
4 Types and processes of migration......Page 69
5 Gender and household strategies......Page 90
6 Migrants’ experiences in the city......Page 110
7 Impacts of migration on rural areas......Page 132
8 Marriage and marriage migration......Page 152
9 The Chinese migrant in the twenty-first century......Page 177
Notes......Page 188
References......Page 195
Index......Page 219
