China’s Policy on Rural-urban Migrants and Urban Social Harmony

China’s Policy on Rural-urban Migrants and Urban Social Harmony

Rural migrants have suffered from serious social exclusion in the Chinese urban society. However, since the early 2000s, the Chinese government emphasizes social harmony as an important national development goal. Together with the reorientation of development goals, the livelihood of rural migrants has received unprecedented State attention. This paper studies the policy changes and examines wh...

Rural–urban migrants in Tanzania

Migration is an important process of change for rural populations in developing countries. Migration is a primary cause of behaviour change—by their very act of migrating, migrants are different from those who do not migrate. The focus of the current study is male rural–urban migration in Tanzania and its interaction with sexual behaviour. The analysis presents results from a comparison with in...

Income Inequality in Urban China: A Comparative Analysis between Urban Residents and Rural-Urban Migrants

Registration Status, Occupational Segregation, and Rural Migrants in Urban China

This paper examines the sources of earnings disparities between rural migrants and local workers in urban China’s labor markets, with special attention to the role played by the household registration (hukou) status in occupational segregation. Using data from the population mini-census of China in 2005, we show that rural migrants’ earnings disadvantages are largely attributable to occupationa...

Length of urban residence and obesity among within-country rural-to-urban Andean migrants.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between length of residence in an urban area and obesity among Peruvian rural-to-urban migrants. DESIGN Cross-sectional database analysis of the migrant group from the PERU MIGRANT Study (2007). Exposure was length of urban residence, analysed as both a continuous (10-year units) and a categorical variable. Four skinfold site measurements (biceps, triceps...