Land-lost Farmers’urban Adaptation In The Perspective Of Social Work

As the farmers’ production and living information source,the land plays an important role for farmers. However, with industrialization and urbanization are rapidly advanced, more and more farmers lost their land. In this case, the peasants were forced to become the public identity of the city. The transformation of the identity has not brought substantial development of land-lost farmers.To the contrary, there have been many problems. On the one hand, they lost the basic subsistence of the land to resist risks, on the other hand, due to constraints and intense pressure of labor-market competition, they were unable to find suitable jobs, thus,they are trapped into a landless and unemployment state. More importantly, the land-lost farmers’ ideas, lifestyles, interpersonal, and social relations are largely different from urban citiziens.This study employed the method of questionnaire survey and interviews of90land-lost farmers of Suzhou,analyzed the data, and summed up the adaptal situstions of land-lost farmers in the economic, social and psychological levels. Economic level reflects that land-lost farmers’ employment rate is not high,low levels of income and consumption and the consumption structure is irrational.The social dimension indicates that social interaction has both the dual characters of the urban people and rural people. Psychological performs in the land-lost farmers who agree with their own urban citizen identity is not high.There is a strong desire to integrate into the urban city but the participation rate is not high. Three reasons are attributed to the problem of land-lost farmers,they are land-lost farmers, government,and political reasons. The last charter illustrates the need for social work services to solve land-lost farmers’ problems, the way and the content of services and service system construction to help the land-lost farmers to adapt to the urban life.