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Migration and Socio-economic Insecurity:
Patterns, Processes and Policies
Cai Fang, July 2003 The unique hukou system, a legacy of the Chinese planned economy, still requires rural and urban residents to register their residence separately and has legitimate discriminatory policies against migrant workers during the ongoing reform period. Although the direction and pattern of migration in China share common features with what has been happening in other developing countries, this institutional factor has strongly influenced the Chinese process of migration and has made migrants a more socially vulnerable group. The reform of the hukou system would not only bring efficiency gains, but also eliminate the institutional root of migrants' vulnerability in the vast regions of China. Click here for full document in PDF |
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Updated by LD. Approved by GS. Last update: 5 August 2003.