Rural migrants in urban China. Enclaves and transient urbanism
Abstract
After millions of migrants moved from China's countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of 바카라 사이트˜informal바카라 사이트™ urban enclave was born - 바카라 사이트˜villages in the city바카라 사이트™. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China바카라 사이트™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 by as much as 20:1. 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 바카라 사이트˜villages in the city바카라 사이트™ and reveals the characteristics and changes in migrants바카라 사이트™ livelihoods and living places.
Citation
Wu, FuLong; Zhang, FangZhu; Webster, C. (Editors) Rural migrants in urban China. Enclaves and transient urbanism. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, (2013) 316 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-53455-0