On Issues Of City Acceptance And Social Adaptation For Rural Migrant Workers In The Course Of Their Citizenization

With the rapid increasing of migrant workers into cities, they have become not only the nucleus of urbanization construction, but the crucial element of urban colony. Our government and scholars are becoming more and more concerned about their transformation of such a group's social roles recently. While towards cities they are full of dreams and persistence, rural migrant workers are confronted with heavy obstacles when converting their roles from rural farmers to urban workers. Other than separation from governmental policies and systems, they are also uncertain about their own roles playing in the urban society. Therefore, these migrant workers long for becoming real citizens, while not brave enough to take their first step.Even though there is somewhat improvement of household registration systems and related social policies in the efforts of several generations, rural migrant workers still can not adapt themselves to cities completely. Citizenization of rural migrant workers is not only pure rural-urban converting of social identities, but includes transformation at the aspects of social living styles, dominant ideology and so on. It is a transformation course when realizing urban civilization, as well as a complicated project of social systems.From the perspectives of sociology research, the current dissertation aims to probe into degree of city acceptance towards rural migrant workers at the main aspects of household registration systems, social security systems, housing and healthcare systems and social policies, and then analyze their adaptation to cities with potential reasons for it. Finally, the essay tends to implore some effective ways to realize citizenization of rural migrant workers.