Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

by Ran Liu

Book Overview

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, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making movement in contemporary China. In revealing and explaining the socio-spatial injustice, this volume re-theorizes the 'right to the city' in the Chinese...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319147374
• ISBN13: 9783319147376
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"