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Internal Migration in Contemporary China

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  1. Delia Davin

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 1-3

  3. Migration in China after 1949

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 4-19

  4. An Overview of Migration in China since 1978

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 20-38

  5. Reform Era Policies on Population Movement

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 39-48

  6. Why People Migrate

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 49-77

  7. The Impact of Migration in the Sending Areas

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 78-97

  8. Migrants‘ Lives and Impacts in the Destination Areas

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 98-120

  9. Women and Migration

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 121-136

  10. Marriage Migration

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 137-150

  11. Responses to Migration and the Prospects for the Future

    • Delia Davin
    Pages 151-160

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 161-177
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About this book

As China moves from a society controlling all aspects of life, including population movement, to something nearer a market economy, migration has become a live issue. Tens of millions of rural migrants have entered China's cities, meeting discrimination similar to that experienced by economic migrants in the West. This book looks to the reasons why people leave certain areas, the lives of migrants and government policy towards them. It distinguishes different types of migration and looks particularly at marriage migration and the effects of migration on the lives of women.

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... Delia Davin's book provides a timely and systematic account of the spatial patterning, demographic trends, causes, impacts, changing state policies, and gender-specific experiences of internal migration in contemporary China. The Journal of Asian Studies

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Delia Davin

About the author

DELIA DAVIN is Head of Department and Reader in Chinese Social Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds. She worked in China as an English teacher and a translator for some years in the 1960s. She studied Chinese at the University of Leeds and did postgraduate work in Leeds, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Paris. She was a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of York and a founding member of the Centre for Women's Studies. She has published extensively on women, gender and population in China. Her books include Woman-work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China, China's One Child Family Policy, and Chinese Lives: an Oral History of Contemporary China.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Internal Migration in Contemporary China

  • Authors: Delia Davin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376717

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Delia Davin 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71731-8Published: 30 October 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40373-8Published: 11 January 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37671-7Published: 30 October 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 177

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Human Geography, Demography

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