The Landless Peasants Action Strategies

With China’s economy rapid development and urbanization process accelerated, from theend of the20th century to the early21st century, the phenomenon that the land of farmers is takeover for use is very common. In order to maintain their own interests in the resettlement and winmore favorable resettlement compensation, under the condition of existing policy norms thelandless peasants in combination with their own conditions and social environment form avariety of actions, which directly lead to farmers to form a variety of strategies. However, whatways of action can be used specifically by landless peasants in the game between stakeholders tomaintain their own interests? What kind of strategies is formed? Are they the same in the processof the resettlement action strategy? What is their survival status now? These are what the authorwants to answer in this paper, and also is the purpose and significance of topic selection.This paper uses case interview to have a talk with the landless peasants who lived in place B,in order to get the firsthand information about some problems from the processes of peasants’resettlement. The author divided the processes of different interview places into three periodsaccording to systematically understanding about how the situation is in the whole processes ofpeasants’ resettlement from1983to now, and according to conclusions about forming andchanging processes of landless peasants’ action strategies, and according to differences in mainaims and compensation policy about different times of interview places. Above all, the mainaction strategies and ways about landless peasants in every period can be seen in this paper.In this paper, chapter one mainly introduces why the author choose this topic. The authorgeneralizes the related articles and identifies the main line of this paper is the government’sattitude changing toward landless peasants. The frame is social action and the researchperspective is the social action theory. Chapter two mainly introduces the government’s earlyattitude toward the landless peasants and the emergence of resettlement compensation problems.Because there are many problems in the resettlement, the farmer produces resentment toresettlement policy, triggering a series of evictions. Chapter three mainly introduces themid-term governments’ mobilizing attitude and compensating policy. This chapter emphasizesthe resettlement action relationship between farmers and "contacts" under the condition of"turnover" flexibility and the dissatisfaction of the peasants’ intelligent resistance. Chapter fourmainly introduces landless peasants’ action strategies–‘lookout and move’ in later period andbuilding houses without a license on the homestead. The second action strategy’s premise is thatthe government on policy guidance has been boosting homestead owned by peasant. The last chapter summarizes the whole paper’s resettlement process from three aspects: the resettlementperiod analysis, social action theory analysis and the competition in the action. By the end of thearticle, the author makes a general summary of full content and puts forward some thinkingabout the problem of landless peasants.