Gong | Manufacturing Towns in China | Buch | 978-981-13-3371-2 | www.sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Gong

Manufacturing Towns in China

The Governance of Rural Migrant Workers
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-13-3371-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

The Governance of Rural Migrant Workers

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

ISBN: 978-981-13-3371-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore


This book offers an engaging and unique view of the governance of Chinese rural migrants in non-factory areas of manufacturing towns. By asking how authorities govern migrants as an ongoing source of cheap labor, this book demonstrates and interprets authorities’ power exercised in the form of governing rationalities, regulations, programs, activities, and designated non-factory spaces—town and village centers and migrant living zones. These power exercises take place routinely in migrants’ everyday lives but typically veil themselves, producing knowledge that legitimates our understanding of migrants. Based on their power exercises, authorities’ governance of migrants, like multiple “invisible filters” that select and help create migrant labor in non-factory areas, leads to an inclusion of a certain number of migrants as cheap factory workers and an exclusion of the rest. Nevertheless, by exercising their unique power techniques, migrants can resist and alter authority governance; thus the authorities’ power exercises are deficient and may ultimately be futile. This book details these power exercises, offers rewarding insights, and can greatly enrich our understanding of China’s local governance of migrants and migrant resistance.

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Acknowledgments.- List of Abbreviations.- List of Chinese Terms.- List of Figures and Tables.- 1. Introduction: Governance, Rural Migrants, and Manufacturing Towns.- 2. Development of Manufacturing Towns in the 1980s and 1990s.- 3. Filtering Rural Migrants as Cheap Labor: Three Authorities’ Governance.- 4. Retail Streets: Recruiting Low-Skilled Migrants in Villages.- 5. Rental Housing: Surveillance of Rural Migrants.- 6. Central Squares: Guiding Rural Migrants in Planned Public Space.- 7. An Eco-High-Tech Town: Governing Rural Migrants to Become Skilled Workers.- 8. Resisting Governance: Production of Rural Migrants’ Selves.- 9. Conclusion: Governance and Manufacturing Towns in Continuous Reforms.- Appendices.- References.


Yue Ray Gong is Assistant Professor at the School of Urban Planning and Design at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. His research focuses on urban governance and migration, housing and community, and periurban areas of China.



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