Rural migrants in urban China : enclaves and transient urbanism
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Rural migrants in urban China : enclaves and transient urbanism
(RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series, 104)
Routledge, 2015 , c2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 2014" "First issued in paperback 2015" --t.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
After millions of migrants moved from China's countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of 'informal' urban enclave was born - 'villages in the city'. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China's economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but owner-occupied settlements developed semi-formally by ex-farmers turned small-developers and landlords who rent shockingly high-density rooms to rural migrants, who can outnumber their landlord villagers. A strong state, matched with well-organised landlords collectively represented through joint-stock companies, has meant that it has been relatively easy to grow the city through demolition of these soft migrant enclaves. The lives of the displaced migrants then enter a transient phase from an informal to a formal urbanity. This book looks at migrants and their enclave 'villages in the city' and reveals the characteristics and changes in migrants' livelihoods and living places.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book analyses how living in the city transforms and changes rural migrant households, and explores the social lives and micro economies of migrant neighbourhoods. It goes on to discuss changing housing and social conditions and spatial changes in the urban villages of major Chinese cities, as well as looking into transient urbanism and examining the consequences of redevelopment and upgrading of the 'villages in the city'; in particular, the planning, regeneration, politics of development, and socio-economic implications of these immense social, economic and physical upheavals.
Table of Contents
1. Migrants' Transient Urbanism in Urban China: An introduction Part 1: Migrants' Livelihoods in the City 2. The New Generation Migrant Workers in China 3. Chinese Cities and Mobile Livelihoods: Migration, risk and social networks 4. Outsiders in the City: Migrant housing and settlement patterns Part 2: Migrants' Social Lives in the City 5. Migrants' Job-search in Urban China: Social networks and the laour market 6. Situated Translocality in Flux Landscapes: Migrants and urban villages in the city of Guangzhou 7. Migrant Integration in China: Evidence from Guangzhou 8. Migrants' Integration in Urban Villages: A case study of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzou Part 3: Migrants' Habitat - Urbanized Villages 9. A tale of Foxconn City: Urban villages, migrant workers and alienated urbanism 10. Shanghai's Urban Villages: Migrants, temporary residence and urban redevelopment 11. Urban Villages as Local Economic Clusters: The case of Zhongda cloth market in Guangzhou 12. Spatial Evolution of Urban Villages in Shenzhen Part 4: Migrants' Transient Urbanism - Village Redevelopment 13. 'Three Olds Redevelopment' in Guangzhou 14. Symbolic Relations Between Urban Villages and the City: Implication for redevelopment strategies 15. Planning for chengzhongcun in Guangzhou and Shenzhen: Redevelopment in the Chinese context 16. Conclusion
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