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Marginalization in Urban China

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Wu, Fulong; Webster, Chris

DOI: 10.1057/9780230299122

ISBN: 978-1-349-31512-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 20, 2015

1 - 10 of 15 Chapters

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Introduction

Wu, Fulong; Webster, Chris

Pages: 1 –13

[Marginalization refers to the process through which particular social groups obtain lower status and become peripheral in a society. The concept is related to poverty but marginalization emphasizes the dynamics of a downwards social trajectory rather than current living standards. The term also...
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Urban Inequality and Polarization

Hamnett, Chris

Pages: 17 –28

[The nature and extent of urban social divisions and inequalities is of major importance for social scientists, politicians and policy makers, not least because they have a bearing on social and economic conditions in cities where the majority of the world’s population now live. How the social...
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Neoliberalism and the Urban Poor: A View from Latin America

Gilbert, Alan

Pages: 29 –56

[The recent history of economic and social development in Latin America ought to provide some lessons for China – both positive and negative. The region is generally more prosperous than China; it has had a longer relationship with capitalism; it experienced severe economic recession in the 1980s...
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Entitlement to the Benefits of Urbanization: Comparing Migrant and Peri-urban ‘Peasants’

Webster, Chris; Zhao, Yanjing

Pages: 59 –71

[This chapter compares rural migrants and peasants from suburban villages with respect to rights to the benefits of urbanization. It argues that the entitlements facing the former are static because of the lack of scarcity of low-cost urban labour, while the entitlements facing the latter have...
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Property Rights, Citizenship and the Making of the New Poor in Urban China

Wu, Fulong

Pages: 72 –89

[Market-oriented reform has remoulded Chinese citizenship. Through enterprise reform, housing reform and the reform of education and health care provision, all-inclusive entitlement has been converted to services based on property rights. ‘Clarifying property rights’ has led to the...
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The Strength of Property Rights, Prospects for the Disadvantaged, and Constraints on the Actions of the Politically Powerful in Hong Kong and China

Smart, Alan

Pages: 90 –111

[The contribution of property rights to the marginalization of disadvantaged groups is intensely contested and has important policy implications. A succession of influential scholars, particularly John Turner and Hernando de Soto, have asserted that stronger property rights for the informal...
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Empowerment or Marginalization: Land, Housing and Property Rights in Poor Neighbourhoods

Shin, Hyun Bang

Pages: 112 –130

[In 2004, the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China was amended to include non-violation of lawful private properties and people’s right to compensation when their private properties are taken away by the state for the public interests (Article 13). Three years later, in March 2007,...
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Rural—Urban Migration in China: Scale, Composition, Pattern and Deprivation

Hussain, Athar; Wang, Youjuan

Pages: 133 –152

[This chapter has two aims. The first is to present a comprehensive account of the scale, composition and the pattern of rural-to-urban migration in China. The second is to discuss issues arising out of the presence of a large population of migrants in cities with reference to housing and basic...
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Private Rental Housing in ‘Urban Villages’ in Shenzhen: Problems or Solutions?

Wang, Ya Ping; Wang, Yanglin; Wu, Jiansheng

Pages: 153 –176

[Sustained economic growth in China was accompanied by rapid urbanization over the course of the past 30 years. Rural to urban migration played a very important role in the economic development and urbanization processes (Wu, 2002 and 2004; Ma and Wu, 2005; McGee et al., 2007; Wang, 2004)....
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Chinese Urban Villages as Marginalized Neighbourhoods under Rapid Urbanization

Liu, Yuting; He, Shenjing

Pages: 177 –200

[Within the rapid process of urbanization, urban villages have appeared in many Chinese cities, particularly in those regions experiencing an acceleration of economic growth. The Chinese name for the urban village is chengzhongcun, literally ‘village in the city’. The rapid expansion of Chinese...

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