| Description |
1 online resource (218 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Use of Chinese in the Text; Introduction; 1 Markets, Migrants and Institutional Change; Markets and migrants; Institutional change; 2 The Hukou System; History of internal migration controls; The hukou system still matters; 3 Institutional Change at the National Level; Promoting economic development; Maintaining social stability; Managing, restricting and directing migration and urbanisation; 4 Institutional Change in Beijing, Shenzhen and Chongqing; Beijing's hukou system; Shenzhen's hukou system |
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Chongqing's hukou system5 Hukou Reform for the New Century; Hukou reform; Institutional change in China's hukou system; Civic rights and incrementalism; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of theirpermanent hukou location, a major challenge to theconstrictive Mao-era system of migration and settlement planning. Jason Young showshow these new forces have been received by the state and documents the process ofchange and the importance of China's hukou system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Migration, Internal -- China
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Freedom of movement -- China
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Freedom of movement
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Migration, Internal
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137277312 |
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1137277319 |
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