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The Social Network And Migrants Livelihood Development Of Differentiation

Posted on:2015-02-06Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z M TanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1267330428469776Subject:Sociology
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Poverty allevitaion is one of major challenges in many countries and regions, in the history of human progress. Poverty alleviation and development is the goal pursued by the internation society. Poverty alleviation has been the focus of government agencies and remaining challenges, in process of modernization with developing countries.Magrition induced by poverty alleviation has been implemented as a pilot in some particulary harsh natural conditions area of china in the early1980s. More than30years of practice has proved that migration induced by poverty alleviation is an effective approach to poverty reduction. The income levels and living strandard of immigration have been significantly improved, the ecology of out-migrating places keep balance, district population and resource environment coordinative development. Magrition induced by poverty alleviation has atteacted a great deal of scholarly attention, and achieve fruitful research results. Then, some important issues have not been systematic studies, for example, how did immigrant follow the road of becoming well-off of sustainable development, what changes have taken place in immigrant’ networks and livelihood at this process. In reviw of this, this thesis focus on these topics build immigrant livelihood analysis framework basis on the social network theory and sustainable livelihood approach, and gather experience material through field investigation.The immigrant livelihoods development on poverty analysis framework is constructed in this article. The immigrant livelihood analysis framework constituted by the six parts, vulnerability contest of out-migrating places, magrition induced by poverty alleviation, structure and processes of in-migrating place, social network and livelihood resources, livelihood strategies, livelihood outcome. Magrition induced by poverty alleviation had taken as that the problem of population to resource and environments is serious in out-migrating place. Magrition induced by poverty alleviation is considered a relocation that advances intervention poverty reduction policies. The immigrant access to development opportunities in the resettlement stage, at the some time, increasing the risk of worse off; when the relocation stage finished, immigrants get the livelihood resources in the social network in the "structure and processes of in-migrating place". Then, the mode of livelihood is change, and gets mote money, have a better live.The process of magrition induced by poverty alleviation is divided into tress stages, relocation, resettlement, poverty-relief and development. The immigrant social networks have gone from crush to refactoring, then to expand, in the process of magrition induced by poverty alleviation. Immigrant social network crush in the stage of relocation, adjust and refactoring in the stage of resettlement, than expended in the stage of poverty-relief and development. The low levels of human capital and limited personal resources are significant characteristics of the immigratants. The livelihood resources need which immigraents livelihood restoration and development are from thire specific ongoing social networks, in the geographic space, livelihood resources for conversion process. In the stage of resettlement, the livelihood resources are from adjusted and reconstructed social networks, immigrants achieve restoration of livelihood, and have solved the problem of food and clothing; in the stage of poverty-relief and development, the livelihood resources are from expended social networks, immigrants achieve sustainable rural livelihood, and gets mote money, have a better live. The essence of immigrant livelihood development is that the original low-market value rural livelihood transformat to relatively high market velue rural livelihood on the specifical onging social networks.Social network have a significant impact on the livelihoods of immigrant. Immigrant livelihood differentiation depends on that immigrant personal social network to expand external economic development of network structure, mainly economic resettlement network structure. In the stage of poverty-relief and development, some immigrant social network to expand external economic development of network structure, achieving a relatively high value livelihoods and freedom from want. Others social network fail to expand external economic development of network structure, in other words, their social network and the networks of economic development separation. So they retain the original low-market value rural livelihood and still in poverty.Personal network and networks of economic development structural separation is an important causes the poor immigrants livelihood development. There are many resons to make the poor immigrants social network seprated the external economic networks, for example poor immigrants less interaction with local villagers and rich immigrants, the government finace limited and official social network recources difficult to share to all the immigrants. Economic rlites of rural win the trust of poor immigrants and establish close relationships bace on their professional production technology, extensive market experiences and strong social capital. Economic rlites of rural is the "bridge" and connect the the poor immigrants personal network to external external economic networks. Economic rlites of rural is the very important social mechanisms that conneting poor immigrants social network and economic development structure.
Keywords/Search Tags:migration induced by poverty alleviation, vulnerability, social network, livelihooddevelopment, differentiation
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