Zhang, HX (2012) Protecting Mobile Livelihoods: Actors’ Responses to the Emerging Health Challenges in Beijing and Tianjin. Modern China: an international quarterly of history and social science, 38 (4). 446 - 478 (33). ISSN 0097-7004
Abstract
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Beijing and Tianjin, and applying a livelihood framework combined with a well-being perspective, this article examines an important aspect of rural–urban migrants’ social protection in China, namely migrants’ health, in particular work safety and occupational health. It argues that migrant workers’ social rights to health and livelihoods are a fiercely contested domain of citizenship entailing aspects of exclusion, inclusion, and control and allocation of economic, social, and political resources. The article shows that in spite of the accelerated pace of legislation and consolidated efforts to reconstruct the welfare system in China in recent years, the new social security schemes have thus far, by and large, failed to protect migrant workers in a systematic manner. The issues raised in the article therefore call for greater academic attention and more effective public policy responses.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2012, Sage Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Modern China. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | rural–urban migration, mobility, social policy, livelihood struggles, health and well-being, access, legal frameworks, China |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > East Asian Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 May 2013 08:56 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 21:33 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700411435765 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0097700411435765 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:75518 |
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