Contesting Citizenship in Urban China : Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market

Post-mao Market Reforms In China Have Led To A Massive Migration Of Rural Peasants Toward The Cities. Officially Denied Residency In The Cities, The Over 80 Million Members Of This Floating Population Provide Labor For The Economic Boom In Urban Areas But Are Largely Denied Government Benefits That City Residents Receive. In An Incisive And Original Study That Goes Against The Grain Of Much Of The Current Discussion On Citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger Challenges The Notion That Markets Necessarily Promote Rights And Legal Equality In Any Direct Or Linear Fashion. Citizenship, Markets, And The State -- State Policies I: Turning Peasants Into Subjects -- Urban Bureaucracies I: Migrants And Institutional Change -- The Urban Rationing Regime I: Prejudice And Public Goods -- State Policies Ii: The Floating Population Leaves Its Rural Origins -- Urban Bureaucracies Ii: Peasants Enter Urban Labor Markets -- The Urban Rationing Regime Ii: Coping Outside It And Alternate Citizenship. Dorothy J. Solinger. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 373-412) And Index. Frontmatter List of Illustrations (page ix) List of Tables (page xi) Preface (page xiii) Acknowledgments (page xix) 1 Introduction: Citizenship, Markets, and the State Appendix: What Is the Floating Population? (page 1) PART ONE: STRUCTURE 2 State Policies I: Turning Peasants into Subjects (page 27) 3 Urban Bureaucracies I: Migrants and Institutional Change (page 56) 4 The Urban Rationing Regime I: Prejudice and Public Goods (page 100) PART TWO: AGENCY 5 State Policies II: The Floating Population Leaves Its Rural Origins (page 149) 6 Urban Bureaucracies II: Peasants Enter Urban Labor Markets (page 194) 7 The Urban Rationing Regime II: Coping Outside It and Alternate Citizenship (page 241) Conclusion: Floating to Where? Citizenship and the Logic of the Market in a Time of Systemic Transition (page 277) Notes (page 291) Bibliography (page 373) Index (page 413)