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The global crisis' impact upon China's rural migrants
Auswirkung der Weltwirtschaftskrise auf Chinas ländliche Wanderarbeitnehmer
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Abstract Towards the end of 2008, as the world economy slowed and export-demand declined due to the global financial crisis, news reports began to appear detailing the return of rural migrants in China to their provincial homes. It was reported that 20 million rural migrant workers were laid off, and social ... view more
Towards the end of 2008, as the world economy slowed and export-demand declined due to the global financial crisis, news reports began to appear detailing the return of rural migrants in China to their provincial homes. It was reported that 20 million rural migrant workers were laid off, and social instability rose due to both economic hardship and to the withholding of the payment of wages. Over time, these circumstances have changed, due to both the Chinese government's fiscal stimulus package and to those programmes that have been targeted specifically at assisting the country's rural migrants. As a result, the situation for rural migrants is no longer dire; circumstances have been greatly ameliorated by proactive government policies. To confirm these results, in this paper we look both at the situation across China and briefly at a study carried out in Sichuan province.... view less
Keywords
remigration; branch of the economy; government policy; Great Depression; migrant worker; financial crisis; fiscal policy; unemployment; poverty; regional factors; city-country relationship; regional comparison; economic policy; migration; gross domestic product; China
Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Political Economy
Method
descriptive study; empirical; quantitative empirical
Free Keywords
Sociology; poverty; financial crisis; Contemporary
Document language
German
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 167-185
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 39 (2010) 2
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works