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The Struggles and Strengths of China's Migrant Workers


The Struggles and Strengths of China's Migrant Workers

This issue of the ChinaSource Quarterly looks at the lives and trends of China's migrant population.

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 ...

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 ...

China's Rapid Development Has Transformed Its Migration Trends

The arsenal of rural-born workers shrank and growth in rural-urban migration abated. However, labor shortages did not drive the surge in ...

They made China's economic dream a reality. Now, they struggle to ...

... benefits – or none at all ... Migrant workers who transformed China now struggling to survive.

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 ...

China's migrant workers need help in the economic downturn | PIIE

Migrant workers, indispensable to China's economic achievements, have become the most vulnerable group suffering under the COVID-19 economic downturn.

Rural Migrant Workers in China: Scenario, Challenges and Public ...

The paper goes on to discuss the difficult working conditions of many rural migrant workers in the Chinese labour market, in particular their low wages, the.

Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts

As the numbers of Chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-Chinese sentiment among other workers in the American economy. This finally ...

China's Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation by ...

That amounts to an additional $1.1 trillion in economic output over a 20-year period. The number of people in China living in absolute poverty fell from 1981 to ...

Social support and quality of life in migrant workers - PubMed Central

Every Chinese citizen is classified as either rural hukou or urban hukou depending on the area of residence and is granted certain benefits and rights depending ...

The Double-Edged Sword of Modernisation | Made in China Journal

However, the Yi migrant workers still face challenges, such as unstable employment, exploitation by labour brokers, and general prejudice—all of ...

China's migrant workers - Libcom.org

Despite the many problems the migrant workers continue to come to the cities, because for many staying in the villages is no longer an ...

China's Internal Migrants - Council on Foreign Relations

Migrant workers frequently work long hours under unsafe conditions, often without the benefit of labor contracts and institutional protection.

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 ...

China: Improving Rural Migrants' Employment Prospects through ...

Rural migrant workers often filled the most menial and lowest paying jobs in urban labor markets, due to low educational and skill levels. They ...

Migrant Workers in Shanghai - OpenEdition Journals

As China's economy turns to globalisation, at home the issue of a floating workforce is becoming more intense and complex. In Shanghai, low-skilled migrants ...

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

They are considered “the cost of the Chinese economy” because of their limited income and lack of time to take care of their children. Migrant ...

Migrant workers who transformed China now struggling to survive

Unequal distribution of benefits and precarious working conditions mean most remain in jobs well past the statutory retirement age. This ...

Why Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in China Continue Working ...

Some studies suggest that the reasons Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers continue working are diverse and complex, and are not limited to the lack of ...