An Institutional Innovation Analysis On Citizenization Of Migrant Workers Based On Urban-Rural Integration

The transfer of rural surplus labor is the inevitable result of industrialization and modernization. Due to long-term barrier by the urban-rural dual institutions of rural partition and urban bias, the process of transferring to cities of China’s rural surplus labor force shows a totally different path compared with western developed countries, farmers to migrant workers first, and then migrant workers to citizens. This characteristic of Chinese rural labor transfer has made a huge population of migrant workers, causing a series of serious problem. Along with the gradually opening of city gate in our country recently, there are no obstacles in the transition of farmers to migrant workers. However, the second phase is suffered great resistance due to historical and institutional reasons. Migrant workers become the vulnerable groups and marginalized in urban society, which causes many social and economic problems. Therefore, promote the citizenization of the rural migrant workers has become one of the fundamental solutions to those problems, and the key to achieved the integration of urban and rural development and build a well-off society in an all-round way.By an in-depth studying of our country rural surplus labor transfer process and the urban-rural dual institutions, this paper analyzes the inevitability and necessity of the citizenization of migrant workers in China, combined with the analysis results of migrant workers’citizenization influential factors, clearly put forward that the urban-rural dual institutions are the main factors hinder the citizenization of migrant workers in China. From a comprehensive and systematic perspective, this paper clarify the change of urban-rural dual institutions in China since 1949, and the characteristics of each period, discusses the problem of dualistic household registration institutions, employment institutions, social security institutions and its adverse impacts on the citizenization of migrant workers. Finally, we investigate the principle of dualistic institutions reform and innovation as well as institutional arrangements in the purpose of promoting integration in urban and rural development.This paper mainly consists of three parts:The first part is introduction, mainly introduces the background and significance of the issue, respectively carries out the literature review both in the angle of rural migrant workers and citizenization of migrant workers. Then we expound the status, characteristics and disadvantages of related research both at home and abroad, on this basis, define the purpose and content, ideas and methods of this article, as well as possible innovations and shortcomings.The second part is the general discussion, includes chapters 2,3 and 4. Firstly, we define the concept of migrant workers and citizenization of migrant workers. Foreign classical theory was used to study the motivation of Chinese rural surplus labor transfer, the migrant workers generating process and problem faced presently, analyses the inevitability of the citizenization of migrant workers. Secondly, on the basis of the previous analyzing, Chapter 4 discusses the influential factors of migrant workers’ citizenization, clearly indicates that the key point of citizenization of migrant workers lays in institutional reform.The third part analyses the impact on the citizenization of migrant workers caused by urban-rural dual institutions, as well as corresponding institutional innovation, which includes chapters 5,6, and 7. These chapters respectively review the evolution process of urban-rural dualistic household registration institutions, employment institutions, social security institutions in our country, summarize the characteristics of each period and its influence on migrant workers’citizenization, then discusses the principle of dualistic institutions’ innovation and institutional arrangements in each specific institution level.