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Life for China's migrant workers


Migrant workers and their children - China Labour Bulletin

Migrant workers have been the engine of China's spectacular economic growth over the last three decades, but they remain marginalized and ...

Migrant Workers Propelled China's Rise. Now Many See Few Options.

They left their villages for the big cities to earn a living and send money home, even if it meant that they had to work long hours, lived in ...

The troubled love lives of China's rural migrants - East Asia Forum

The experience of intimacy among China's rural migrant workers (nongmingong), for example, reveals how socioeconomic inequality in contemporary ...

In rapidly ageing China, millions of migrant workers can't afford to ...

The alternative for them and many of the 100 million rural migrants reaching retirement age in China over the next 10 years is to return to ...

Health Status and Access to Health Care of Migrant Workers in China

Migrants were young, worked very long hours, and their living conditions were very basic. Nineteen percent had some form of health insurance and 26% were ...

Labour migration in China and Mongolia

Migrant workers are at risk of exploitation before they leave their home, as they often lack accurate information about the jobs and the working and living ...

Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no ...

Older migrant workers moved to the cities to improve the lives of their children and other relatives, not themselves, she found. Most have ...

The Struggles and Strengths of China's Migrant Workers

They were the unskilled factory workers, trash collectors, restaurant servers, security guards, vegetable sellers, and the primary construction ...

The Plight of China's Migrant Workers – UAB Institute for Human ...

The freedom and ability to leave their rural hometown are points of pride for migrant workers, yet the enormous surplus of labor in the urban ...

Family migration and well-being of Chinese migrant workers' children

Migrant workers either left their children behind in their hometowns in rural areas or brought them with them to the city. The quality of life ...

Work in Progress: The Changing Face of China's Migrant Workforce

China's migrant workers are on average older, better educated, and prefer to stick closer to home compared with 16 years ago.

The Residential Environment and Health and Well-Being of Chinese ...

China's internal migrants suffer from marginalised housing conditions, poor neighbourhood environments and residential segregation, which may have significant ...

"Our Parents Are All Gone": Understanding the Impacts of Migration ...

This is reality for 1 in 5 children in China. Left-behind children (LBCs) remain in rural villages while their parents migrate to cities for work. Although ...

Migration in China - Wikipedia

Migrant workers are not necessarily rural workers; they can simply be people living in urban areas with rural household registration. In 2015 a total of 277.5 ...

Migrant Workers in China Face Cold Winter as Economy Struggles

Although China's government has promised a rosier outlook for the economy in 2024, some migrant workers, labor brokers and shop owners tell ...

The Migrant Workers Behind China's Economic Miracle Are Miserable

In fact, migrants, including Liu, often rent with nothing more than a verbal agreement. In major cities on China's east coast, migrant workers ...

Migrant workers who transformed China now struggling to survive

Millions of migrant workers helped transform China from an agrarian economy into a manufacturing giant, but most have yet to see major changes in their own ...

Rural Chinese Migrants Find City Life Difficult - PBS

In China, a new generation of young workers is moving from their traditional rural hometown villages to major metropolitan areas like Beijing in order to ...

For China's Migrant Workers, Retirement Often Brings More Work

Shut out of the social security system, Chinese migrants are having to continue working back-breaking jobs well into their 60s and 70s.

Factory life far from home leaves China's migrant workers vulnerable

China has some 260 million migrant workers, who leave behind family for better opportunities. But experts believe many struggle with mental ...


Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Book by Leslie T. Chang