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Author Friedman, Eli, author.

Title The urbanization of people the politics of development, labor markets, and schooling in the Chinese city Eli Friedman
Published New York Columbia University Press [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) illustrations
Contents Conceptualizing the politics of urbanization : the just-in-time response -- Urban developmentalism and the inverted welfare state -- The migrant school : concentrated deprivation -- Rendered surplus : parents navigate "population control via education" -- Population management's "hard edge" : school closures and demolitions -- Reproductive shock absorbers : migrant school teachers -- Conclusion: Global extensions
Summary "During the summer of 2011, the Beijing municipal government launched population control measures to clear the children of migrant workers from the city. Just weeks before the beginning of the school year, bulldozers demolished more than two dozen schools serving families who had migrated to the capital from China's vast rural hinterland. It therefore came as something of a surprise when soon thereafter the central government began calling for "the urbanization of people," by which they meant allowing tens of millions of rural migrants to get official residency and access to social services in the cities where they were employed. Over the course of the 2010s, it became increasingly clear that the central government envisioned a citizenship regime in which an individual's position within the national socio-spatial hierarchy would correspond as closely as possible to their levels of human capital-high-end cities for the high-end population, low-end places for the low-end population. Using the school as a lens on the urbanization process, Eli Friedman investigate how city governments in China are managing flows of people into the city, which groups of people are included in which types of cities and why, and what the socio-economic consequences of this approach are. Drawing on more than 200 in-depth interviews with migrant parents and teachers, a careful analysis of policy documents, and direct observation in the classroom, Friedman argues that urban governments in China are providing access to public education precisely to those that need it least: school admissions heavily favor families with already high levels of economic, cultural, and social capital, a phenomenon he refers to as the "inverted welfare state." The Urbanization of People shows how this inverted welfare state functions in practice and how it changes understandings of the process of urbanization in China"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education and state -- China
Children of migrant laborers -- Education -- China
Migrant labor -- China -- Social conditions
Urbanization -- China
Urban policy -- China
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Children of migrant laborers -- Education
Education and state
Migrant labor -- Social conditions
Population policy
Social conditions
Urban policy
Urbanization
SUBJECT China -- Population policy
China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
Subject China
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021043574
ISBN 9780231555838
0231555830