C Cindy Fan

China on the Move

Migration, the State, and the Household

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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This book is a multi-faceted, comprehensive and timely study of the millions of migrants in China, their experiences, and their impacts on the city and the countryside.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 165mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415428521
• ISBN-10: 0415428521
• Artikelnr.: 23819491

Autorenporträt

C. Cindy Fan is Professor at the UCLA Geography Department. Her research examines regional and social questions in transitional economies, focusing on labor migration, gender, regional inequality, and population in post-Mao China. She has published more than fifty refereed research articles and is editor of Regional Studies and senior contributing editor of Eurasian Geography and Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Migration, the State and the Household 2. Volumes and Spatial Patterns
of Migration 3. The Hukou (Household Registration) System 4. Types and
Processes of Migration 5. Gender and Household Strategies 6. Migrants'
Experiences in Cities 7. Impacts of Migration on Rural Areas 8. Marriage
and Marriage Migration 9. The Chinese Migrant in the 21st Century