Overview
- Explores the impact of changes within the ‘hukou’ system (household registration) on Chinese rural-urban migration
- Considers migrant worker choices in coping techniques when dealing with major event such as wage exploitation, work injuries and illness
- Proposes a typology of “coping” which includes a variety of administrative coping, political coping and social coping
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Book Title: Rural Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China
Book Subtitle: Migrant Workers' Coping Strategies
Authors: Li Sun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8093-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8092-0Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4062-8Published: 09 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8093-7Published: 26 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 193
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Policy, Migration, Urban Studies/Sociology