Contesting Citizenship in Urban China Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market

Name: Contesting Citizenship in Urban China Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market
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ISBN: 9780520217966

ISBN-10: 0520217969

ISBN-13: 9780520217966

Edition: 1999

Authors: Dorothy J. Solinger

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Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 463
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Citizenship, Markets, and the State



What Is the Floating Population?



Structure



State Polices I: Turning Peasants into Subjects



Urban Bureaucracies I: Migrants and Institutional Change



The Urban Rationing Regime I: Prejudice and Public Goods



Agency



State Policies II: The Floating Population Leaves Its Rural Origins



Urban Bureaucracies II: Peasants Enter Urban Labor Markets



The Urban Rationing Regime II: Coping Outside It and Alternate Citizenship


Conclusion: Floating to Where? Citizenship and the Logic of the Market in a Time of Systemic Transition


Notes


Bibliography


Index