Desire for Survival: An Anthropological Study of Migrant Workers' Mobility

Author: Zhou Dameng
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: The migrant workers, yearning for survival, leave the countryside, head to the cities, move towards the coastal regions, and step into unfamiliar factories and construction sites. With their own hands and sweat, they have earned the right to survive and have built the scaffolding for China's modernization! The continuous flow of people traveling between the origin and destination is like an eternal pendulum; the unchangeable identity of "outsiders" can only coexist with "locals" in the same space to form a "dual community." These are the true portrayals of migrant workers. The author of this book has been tracking and researching migrant workers for nearly 20 years. The book showcases the process, characteristics, and patterns of their mobility and also proposes positive suggestions for the issues that arise during the process.