Flow Into And Back-flow From Cities: Rural Laborers' Flowing Influenced By Social System

The problem of rural laborers in fact is that of their migrating.Both the waves of flowing into the cities which began in 1980s andthe waves of back-flowing which began in 1990s were all noticed bysociologists in China. Researches of the reasons resulted in theflowing involved in every aspect such as individual, family or societyand so on. Under a macroscopic view of social system, we talk aboutthe process of rural laborers' flowing into the cities and theirback-flowing with a sight of longitudinal sight in this thesis. Thereasons about social system which influenced rural laborers' flowingare analyzed and some advice is put forward to guide them to flowmore rationally and orderly.The whole thesis consists of six parts. Part one is the introduction.It consists of the advance of the question, the summary of literature,the frame of the theory. Social system view is the research angle ofview, while the push and pull theory is the research theory in thisthesis. In Part two, the part of our research design, the researchmethods, hypotheses and the variable's operation are introduced.In Part three, relationship between the social system and rurallaborers' immigrating is discussed. The first process of their flowing——flowing into cities is talked about in this part. We mainlyanalyze during this process, how the social system in country and thatin city push and pull rural laborers from countries into cities.The second potential flowing process——rural laborers'back-flowing is expatiated in Part four and five. We study theexclusion of rural laborers from city social system and the weakresistance of the laborers in Part four, the draw of new county socialsystem for them and their response in Part five. Then we conclude thatthe exclusion and the attraction produce an inverse "push—pull" effect which results the rural laborers' back-flowing.In Part six an objective conclusion is made——Whether rurallaborers flow into or out of the cities depend on the game of the socialsystems of city and country. At last, we suggest that cities andcounties should balance laborers' provision between them throughtheir social systems, not make rural laborers flow into citiesdisorderedly as before.