On Family Migration Of Peasant Workers In The Perspective Of Social Citizenship

The people-oriented ideology should be followed in the urbanization and the key of urbanization lies in solving the human problem.However,there exists a new binary segmentation between the urban residents and floating population.The migrant workers failed to integrate into the urban society,and the urbanization is still a problem.On the other hand,although the agriculture,rural development and peasants have changed the situation of "poor rural areas,bitter peasants and dangerous agriculture" into that of "scattered rural areas,old peasants,and fragile agriculture",the core is still the problem of peasants.The core of the peasant problem is his identity.In terms of peasants' status,identity of migrant workers,their rights and interest guarantee are the most crucial and extremely urgent.As they fall apart in the living place,social status,occupation and so on,the migrant workers and their related problems have increasingly become a serious social problem,and even a political issue.The central government has put forward the plan "to promote the population of 100 million to settle in cities".In this new background,studying the family migration of peasant workers is of great strategic significance.For the family migration of migrant workers,citizenship theory provides a better perspective.Unlike the individual migration,the family migration of migrant workers wants providing more conditions to meet the new requirements,such as migrant workers' housing and education resources.Their social rights need to be further extended and developed.Besides,their labor rights also need to get a better security.This thesis argues that the root cause of the non-family migration of migrant workers is that the migrant workers are lack of social citizenship and equal social rights.The security in work,housing,education,social insurance and relief policies is deadlocked.That is to say,the supply,conditionality and membership in these projects are not enough.The solution is to build the equal social citizenship of migrant workers,to introduce some corresponding social policies so as to promote the family migration of migrant workers.With the theme of family migration of migrant workers,this thesis argues that the equal social citizenship must be built for the implementation of family migration of rural migrant workers.From"supply","conditionality" and "membership",this thesis sets up a frame work.In addition to the introduction,conclusion and the appendix,there are three parts as follows.Part A,that is Chapter 1,is on the social citizenship theory and its application.Through the comparative study of the welfare systems,we find that "supply","conditionality" and "membership"differs in the various welfare systems.The analysis framework based on these three aspects is quite appropriate to analyze the problem of family migration.Part B,that is the main part of this article,includes 4 chapters from Chapter 2 to Chapter 6.Chapter 2 is on the state analysis of non-family migration at the sample village.This chapter focuses on the living state of some migrant workers,and provides the basis for the following in-depth analysis.There are some stories about migrant workers and their families,and the family disintegration will appear in migrant workers.Chapter 3,who will supply:the policies and resources for family migration of migrant workers,mainly analyzes the low and inadequate protection of the migrant workers in employment right and life rights.The single supply subject is the main cause of inadequate welfare supply.Chapter 4,what conditions are needed:the responsibility and recognition of family migration of migrant workers,mainly analyzes some "rejection" from the social policy to migrant workers and their families.In the employment,housing and social assistance,the social policies are "blind" both for migrant workers and their family members.Their children's education and social insurance have been geared to the needs of migrant workers,but in the concrete execution many conditions are attached.There is a tension between the self-identity and social identity of migrant workers.Behind it is the lack of state responsibility.This is the reasons for "reject" and "added condition".Chapter 5,who provides:the membership of the migrant workers and family migration,mainly analyzes their membership based on rewards and punishments and its distributive justice.The membership based on rewards and punishments rules out the social rights of a migrant worker as a citizen,not to mention their families.Therefore,the family migration is far away.Or there is a great vulnerability at present.The reason is distribution justice in the membership.Chapter 6,on family migration policy:domestic and foreign typical experience,chooses Britain,the United States and Japan,India and Brazil to analyze their domestic non-agricultural resettlement policies.The domestic cities are Shenzhen,Kunshan and Chengdu.Through them it analyzes their policies to promote family migration of migrant workers.Finally it is concluded that the improvement of the peasant workers' social rights and the good social policies are the key to promote the family migration.Part C includes Chapter 7 and Chapter 8.Chapter 7,path and action:the construction of migrant workers' social citizenship,is firstly on the citizenship development path analysis of Chinese peasants and migrant workers.Migrant workers should take the strategy of "top-down",and gradually construct their equal social citizenship.Chapter 8,footing:social policy adjustment to promote the family migration of migrant workers,overalls the social policy in the first place,and then analyzes the opportunity of the migrant worker social policy adjustment:the implementation of new urbanization strategy and the reform of household registration management system,and the dimensions:supply,conditionality and membership.Finally this article analyzes how to adjust the specific social policies in the perspective of supply,conditionality and membership.The use of social citizenship theory brings into this article many characteristic elements and challenges.Social right is the core of the problem of migrant workers,and migrant workers' rights are in essence the key to the problem of family migration.They should be a comprehensive protection of the rights of the migrant workers.Based on the social rights of migrant workers including employment participation,education,social insurance,housing right and relief right,from supply,conditionality and membership,this article discusses the family migration issue.Using the theory as a tool and striving for a breakthrough is one of the features of this article.The second feature is that this article uses the social policy as a breakthrough point,and discusses the predicament of rights in the migration of rural migrant workers.The aim is to build the equal social citizenship to promote the family migration of migrant workers.There are some risks with the study such as a plain analysis,a less rigorous argument and a weak persuasion.These may cause the unexpected objectives of this study,even opposite.These are some challenges with the use of the theory of social citizenship.