Migrant workers and environmental amenities and infrastructure in urban China: from the lens of environmental justice

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Shan Zhou ◽  
Jiaqi Liang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Environmental Amenities

The Plight of Rural Migrant Workers in Urban China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongwei Chu ◽  
James W. Gentry ◽  
Jie Fowler Gao ◽  
Xin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

scholarly journals Regional Heterogeneity of Migrant Rent Affordability Stress in Urban China: A Comparison between Skilled and Unskilled Migrants at Prefecture Level and Above

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 5920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li ◽  
Liu ◽  
Qi
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
High Rent ◽  
Income Ratio ◽  
Spatial Regression Analysis

Rental housing unaffordability has been widely used to assess the housing poverty problem among immigrants in the developed and developing countries. China is experiencing an unprecedented urbanization process, with two-thirds of its 250 million migrants now being sheltered in private rental housing in the host cities. In this paper, we aimed to examine the rental housing unaffordability problems faced by migrant workers in urban China and provide policy recommendations for a more accessible and affordable migrant housing provision system. We used the household data on China’s Migrant Dynamics Monitoring Survey (MDMS), released in 2016, across China’s 329 prefecture-level cities and above to look into the sociality and spatiality of migrant rent expenses and rent-income ratio at the prefecture-level cities and above. The statistical tests were conducted to examine the socio- and spatial-variance of these rent stress indexes, and it was found that educational level is a significant and quite powerful indicator in predicting who will or will not assume the heavier rental housing pressure. We then continued to reveal the different spatiality of high-rent-stress migrants across the high- and low-skilled categories. An agglomeration of the high-skilled high-rent-stress migrants was witnessed in the coastal growth engines of urban clusters, while a more spillover-like pattern among the low-skilled high-rent-stress migrants was reported in our study. An ordinary least square and spatial regression analysis was conducted to explain their respective mechanisms.

Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Kathy Jenkins ◽  
Sara Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Downward Pressure ◽  
The Face ◽  
Changing Patterns

This chapter is based on a number of international case studies of grassroots occupational and environmental health struggles that are attempting to link workplace, environment and community. Interviews with key people involved in each struggle, in combination with documented campaigns and our own experience as occupational and environmental health activists, have provided a picture of the changing patterns of work under neoliberalism, and the implications for community and workers’ struggle for environmental justice and occupational health. Themes include the erosion of the distinction between work and community and between the workplace and the environment; the increasing casualisation and precarity of work; downward pressure on working conditions; repression of trade unions and decline in union membership; deregulation of work, safety and environmental protection; and particular risks faced by women, young and migrant workers. Union and community organisers are employing diverse tactics in the face of these challenges.

scholarly journals Unequal occupational mobilities between rural migrant and urban resident workers in urban China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
Urban Resident ◽  
High Tendency ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Urban Labor Market ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

The current scholarship on inequality of occupational attainment between rural migrant workers (RMW) and urban resident workers (URW) is largely dominated by evidence suggesting a landscape of occupational segregation, whilst there is a lack of studies researching the equality of occupational mobility. To fill this gap, this study compares the occupational mobilities between RMW and URW in China’s urban labor market. Three heatmaps are used to visualize the differences between these two groups in the outflow distributions of occupational mobility. The results show a marked disadvantage of RMW’s mobility into white-collar occupations and a relatively high tendency for them to move to or to stay in the manual and agricultural occupations.

scholarly journals Has Rural-Urban Migration Promoted the Health of Chinese Migrant Workers?

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuihong Long ◽  
Jiajun Han ◽  
Yong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Salmon Bias ◽  
Agricultural Employment ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Chinese Migrant Workers ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between health and migration has always been an important theme in immigration research. This research develops a new approach to test the healthy migrant hypothesis and the salmon bias hypothesis in China by examining an interaction term combining agricultural hukou and migrant status, non-agricultural employment history, and subsequent area of residence. Based on two Chinese micro-databases, CGSS 2015 and Harmonized CHARLS, we conducted an empirical test on the relationship between migration and health. Our empirical evidence suggests that the initial health advantage among Chinese rural migrant workers was largely due to self-selection rather than migration effects. After controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, this advantage disappeared. After their health deteriorated, migrant workers returned to their original location. This could exacerbate the contradiction between the allocation of medical resources and the demand in rural and urban China, further intensifying the already widening health status gap between rural and urban residents.

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