The local state andnongmingongcitizenship in Guangdong

Local Welfare as Developmental Contributory Rights

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ID4524955
AuthorsYoon Jongseok (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume24
Issue7
Pages871-886
Publication date2020-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2020.1812953
OpenAlexW3082406768
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

This study analyses the changing socioeconomic status of nongmingong – village-originated informal migrant workers in Chinese cities – by examining how their local welfare rights are conditioned upon individual developmental utilities. In Guangdong Province, which is an exemplary case, the local state has provided a kind of developmental-cum-social citizenship to migrant workers with desirable qualifications. The state achieved this by granting hukou (formalized local citizen status) according to a point-based system that emphasizes qualifications that are considered useful for the local economy and society. Such developmentally contingent local citizenship, despite its inclusionary effect on those eligible, has inevitably amplified the inequalities among migrant workers in the labour market

Citizenship · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Local Development · Local society · Migrant workers · Political science · Politics · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demography · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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