Disappeared Villages And Peasants In City

Land-lost peasants are special and large groups, which are arising under the background of China’s rapid urbanization. During the process of urbanization, villages quietly disappeared in actual, but as the groups of thousands of years, will the groups of farmers be ended in the trend of urbanization? This issue has been discussing in a long time. This study is in method of field research of land-lost farmers, which have been forced to move in the city for more than a decade. Through participant observation, unstructured interviews, we try to show the current state of their citizenship, analyze the factors that influencing the process of their urbanization, and discuss whether farmers will come to an end.In this paper, the extent of the citizenship were presented and discussed in two aspects:social structure and the culture characteristic of land-lost farmers. On the current situation, the external objective structural factors, such as social factors, economic factors and institutional factors, caused extrusion of land-lost farmers, estrangement with urban residents in aspect of social interaction, income, living space and institutional arrangements. The internal cultural factors, such as social interaction based on local culture and interpersonal contact, identity based on different cultural, special social memory of farmers, continuation of local lifestyles. These objectives distinguish the land-lost farmers from urban population on the cultural level, and enhanced with the identity and behavior of land-lost farmers.In summary, the interaction between the external structure and internal culture builds the current state of land-lost farmers, continually to strengthen the estrangement and differentiation between land-lost farmers from urban population. It results the relatively village fields with clear boundaries in urban space. That means the existence of urban farmers. This issue depends neither on the physical form of the village, nor on their "Hukou"(registered permanent residence), but the existence of cultural level.