Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

Liu, Ran

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2016

303

Mole

Inglês

9783319365770

15 a 20 dias

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1. China's Globalizing Primary Cities as a Contested Space: An Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Background: The City-Making Movement and Housing Inequality in China 1.3. What This Book is About 1.4. Research Methodologies and Contexts 1.5. Organization of This Book: Chapters Part I Understanding the Spatial Mobility of China's Migrant Workers against a Backdrop of City-Branding Movements 2. The Intra-City Residential Mobility of Migrant Workers: A Literature Review 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Intra-City Residential Mobility in Advanced Economies 2.3. Mobility of Rural Migrants and their Urban Informalities in Third World Cities 2.4. Mobility of Rural Migrants in Urbanizing China 2.5. Weber, Harvey and Lefebvre's Theories of Socio-Spatial Mobility and the Notion of the Right' 2.6. Brief Summary: Bridging the Research Gaps between Western Theories and China Studies 3. Conflict between City Image Pursuits and Migrant Workers' Rights 3.1. Background: The Transition from a Command to a Market Economy 3.2. Developmental Urbanism versus Inequitable Access to City Rights 3.3. The Perceived Unjust Mobility Policies 3.4. Re-Theorizing the Right to the City' in the Chinese Context 3.5. Conclusion Part II Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Globalizing Beijing, 2000-2010 4. Demographic Profile, Spatial Mobility and Residence of Migrants in Beijing: Data from the 2010 Census 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Demographic Profile of Beijing's Migrants in 2010 4.3. The In-Migration of Beijing's Migrants in 2010 4.4. Spatial Distribution of Migrants in Beijing from 2000 to 2010 4.5. The Residence of Migrants in Beijing's Rural Areas in the 2000s 4.6. The Beijing Municipality's Governance Practices towards Migrant Workers and their Informal Housing 4.7. Conclusion: Right to the City' of Migrants Compromised in Beijing's Governance System 5. Low-Wage Migrants in North-Western Beijing: The Precarious Tenancy and Floating Life 5.1. Introduction 5.2. The Hukou System: An Invisible Wall Depriving Migrants of their Rights' to the City? 5.3. Survey Methodology 5.4. Survey Findings 5.5. Evaluation of Gain and Loss following Mobility 5.6. The Mobility Gaps between Various Social Groups 5.7. Discussion: Housing Illegality' and Demolition 5.8. Conclusion 6. The Marginalized Status of Dislocated Migrant Groups in Beijing 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Housing and Redevelopment Policies in Beijing: A Review 6.3. Comparing Dislocated Migrant Workers and Local Dislocated Groups in Beijing 6.4. Mechanisms of Spatial Mobility of Low-Income Residents in Beijing 6.5. Conclusion Part III City Governance towards Urban Informalities in Different Urbanization Contexts 7. Building the Globalizing City with or without Slums? - Exploring the Contrast between City Models in Sao Paulo and Beijing 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Overurbanization' versus Underurbanization' in Rapidly Industrializing Areas 7.3. Land in Urban China: A Source for Financing Rapid and Formal Urbanization 7.4. Exigencies Produced by the Lefebvrian Notion of the Right to the City' 7.5. Conclusion 8. Conclusion: Exigencies Produced by the Lefebvrian Notion of Right to the City' 8.1. Summary of Findings 8.2. Originality and Contributions of this Book 8.3. Findings Drawn from Research on China's Urbanization Mode 8.4. Conclusion: Right' and Mobility' Relations in Contemporary China Appendix I: Beijing Urban Village Survey Questionnaire (English Version) Appendix II: Beijing Urban Village Survey Questionnaire (Chinese Version) Index