Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

• Main Author: Liu, Ran (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Labor law.; Environmental management.; Emigration and immigration.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Urbanism.; Migration.; Environmental Management.; Labour Law/Social Law.

The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as ‘floaters’ has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, China, and questions the city ‘rights’ issues beneath the city-ma...

Table of Contents:

• China’s globalizing primary cities as a contested space: an introduction
• Contentions arising between city imaging pursuits and displacees
• Displacee groups in Beijing: differentiated citizenship & access to space
• Cities with or without slums? A contrast of city models in São Paulo & Beijing
• Conclusion: exigencies produced by the Lefebvrian notion of ‘Right to the City’.