Urban Poverty in China

Urban Poverty in China

Language: English

Pages: 259

ISBN: 1847209696

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Urban poverty is an emerging problem. This book explores the household and neighbourhood factors that lead to both the generation and continuance of urban poverty in China. It is argued that the urban Chinese are not a homogenous social group, but combine laid-off workers and rural migrants, resulting in stark contrasts between migrant and workers' neighbourhoods and villages. The expert authors examine the new urban poor in China and the dynamics of their poor neighbourhoods highlighting both household experience and neighbourhood changes affecting the urban poor. "Urban Poverty in China" is based upon a comprehensive household survey in six Chinese cities and provides insights into microscopic and neighbourhood level poverty dynamics. The comprehensive study explores the spatial implications such as concentration of poverty as well as the differentiation within poor neighbourhoods. This informative book tells an insightful story about evolving urban poverty in Chinese cities that will be invaluable to researchers and postgraduate students within urban studies, geography, social policy, development studies, as well as Chinese and Asian studies. It will also prove to be an invaluable read for researchers in urban and social development and international development agencies.

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households in these neighbourhoods is available as a digital dataset via the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) of the UK Data Archive (www.esds.ac.uk). In addition to the financial support from ESRC and DFID, many people helped us with this project. We would especially like to thank those who live in the surveyed neighbourhoods for answering our questions and sharing their detailed life stories. Because of confidentiality, we cannot thank them in a more personal way. As for the many

rural migrants have the largest number of familiar neighbours. This is contrary to the perception that poor households usually have a narrower social circle. Nevertheless, this is not uncommon in China’s urban villages, since rural migrants from the same place of origin tend to live in the same place after they have migrated to the city. For poor migrants whose social circle is mostly confined within the neighbourhood they live in, it is quite normal for them to become friendly with a large

The two of them only receive 800 Yuan per month. We are still depend on them to a great extent. But they’re getting old – both of them are 72 years old now. My mum has had asthma for a long time. But she doesn’t go to hospital unless it’s really serious [the interviewee was weeping]. My family is leading a miserable life. Some neighbours take pity on us, they help us occasionally. (Interview, December 2006) Market Discrimination and Institutional Discrimination A considerable number of working

had a negative impact on job creation. Along with the commodification of the labour force, more lay-offs were generated, causing a deepening and extension of urban poverty. Economic deflation, job shrinkage and decreasing purchasing power lead to a vicious circle of poverty generation. The fundamental reform of industrial structure drove many SOEs into bankruptcy. The industrial sectors that had lost their comparative advantage in the face of international competition were forced to downsize.

issue for MLSS recipients is whether job training can upgrade their skills so that they can specialize in a different segment of the job market. So far the effort to convert laid-off workers into self-employed or ‘private entrepreneurs’ has not been successful. Several interviewees mentioned that the reemployment programme did not fit their needs as they had no ‘business experience’, a poor educational level, limited financial resources and a limited social network. While it is named the ‘Little

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