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Migration, risk and livelihoods: a Chinese case
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Universität Duisburg-Essen Campus Duisburg, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften IN-EAST
Abstract "China has turned from a "low risk" to a "high risk" society since the start of the market reforms in the late 1970s. Market, while bringing diverse livelihood opportunities to rural people, has simultaneously distributed risks, and the exposure and vulnerability to them unequally among different so... view more
"China has turned from a "low risk" to a "high risk" society since the start of the market reforms in the late 1970s. Market, while bringing diverse livelihood opportunities to rural people, has simultaneously distributed risks, and the exposure and vulnerability to them unequally among different social groups. This paper attempts to apply the risk concept to the study of one of the most socially disadvantaged groups in China, namely rural-urban migrants, through analysing the narratives of members of a migratory family of the Hui Muslim national minority from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, who run a business in the northern city of Tianjin. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the research adopts an actor-oriented perspective combined with qualitative longitudinal research methodology (or "extended case method") to delineate a livelihood trajectory of this family, and explore the relationships between livelihood, risk, social networks, agency and public policy interventions." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
China; Asia; Far East; migration; livelihood; existential anxiety; risk; subsidy; public support; social network; internal migration
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Security
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
City
Duisburg
Page/Pages
22 p.
Series
Duisburger Arbeitspapiere Ostasienwissenschaften / Duisburg Working Papers on East Asian Studies, 85
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45001
ISSN
1865-858X
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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