Internal Migration in Contemporary China - Paperback

by D. Davin (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.