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Migrant Workers and the City: Generation Now

Migrant Workers and the City: Generation Now

Chuanhui, Huang
Beare, Anna
Veltmeyer, Henry

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General SociologyImmigration & RefugeesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1552668959
ISBN13: 9781552668955
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Published: Sep 1 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Awarded the Excellent Copyright Output Award by the Chinese Publishers Association.

Fascinating...a must-read for academics, students and a general public interested in the situation of rural migrants in China. - Raúl Delgado Wise
Today China has the second largest economy in the world. The largest human migration in history has fueled this rapid growth as people move from the countryside to work in China's fast growing industrial cities. But China is changing. Today's migrants from the countryside are a world apart from their fathers and grandfathers who made the same journeys to the metropolis in search of work decades before them. The older generation made the journey with every expectation of returning to the countryside once they had made some money. Todays generation, better educated and connected by technology, expects higher wages from working in cities than is the reality. These workers do not want to return home to work on the farm, so they frequently take employment that is precarious and poorly paid.

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