China Migrant workers in the digital market: China’s platform economy August 13, 2019 0 Written by Hong Yu Liu. Image Credit: Image provided by the author. In 2015, the Premier of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Li Keqiang…
China The Health of the ‘Left-behind Parents’ October 13, 2015 0 Written by Zhong ZHAO. Statistics in 2012 showed that 194 million Chinese were 60 years old and over, accounting for 14.3% of the total Chinese population. Of…
China Self-employment Activity and Ascension to Urban Citizenship for Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in China October 12, 2015 1 Written by Guangjie Ning. By 2013, the total number of rural migrant workers reached 160 million (National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), 2014). However,…
China Uncertain Encounters: African Migrant Entrepreneurs and Chinese Manufacturers October 7, 2015 0 Written by Nellie Chu. In Guangzhou the arrival of transnational migrant entrepreneurs from countries across Africa has captured the attention of a growing number of…
China China’s migrant worker crisis and the children who are left behind July 16, 2015 1 Written by Samantha Hoffman. China was recently rocked by the suicides of four siblings, aged five to 13, in Cizhu Village, Bijie city, Guizhou province.…
Culture and Society Identities of Migrant worker: From Nongmin Gong (农民工) to Xin Shimin (新市民) June 18, 2015 0 Written by Wei Wang. People’s identity is very much reflected on and constructed by how they are named by others. Internal migrant workers in China…
Culture and Society Hukou Haunts China – Migrant Workers and the case of Yang Zhizhu and his second child June 21, 2012 0 By Mike Bastin. Calls for an end or at least reform of China’s Hukou system continue to grow ever louder. Pressure for change is building…
