China's Citizenship Challenge

Labour Ngos and the Struggle for Migrant Workers' Rights

Malgorzata Jakimów (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2021
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5399-9 (ISBN)

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China’s Citizenship Challenge is a valuable contribution into the field of labour movement studies, framing labour NGOs’ activism as centred on contestation of migrant workers’ citizenship in China. It shows that while NGOs’ activism revolves around the broad areas of civic organising, labour and urban space, it ultimately rests upon engagement with the wider citizenship regime in China. -- .

China's citizenship challenge tells a story of how labour NGOs contest migrant workers' citizenship marginalisation in China. The book argues that in order to effectively address problems faced by migrant workers, these NGOs must undertake 'citizenship challenge': the transformation of migrant workers' social and political participation in public life, the broadening of their access to labour and other rights, and the reinvention of their relationship to the city.

By framing the NGOs' activism in terms of citizenship rather than class struggle, this book offers a valuable contribution to the field of labour movement studies in China. The monograph also proves exceptionally timely in the context of the state's repression of these organisations in recent years, which, as the book explores, were largely driven by their citizenship-altering activism. -- .

Malgorzata Jakimów is Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics at the University of Durham -- .

Introduction: Labour Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and the citizenship challenge

Part I Structural citizenship
1 Migrant workers’ citizenship, the hukou system and the local state policies: a genealogical enquiry

Part II Civic organising
2 Organising under the repressive state
3 Networking under the constraints of the state and the market

Part III Labour
4 Weiquan activism and its limits
5 Labour activism beyond the law

Part IV Space
6 The figure of the worker-citizen
7 From urban exclusion to urban transformation

Conclusion: Citizenship challenge, social inequality and the insecure state

Appendices
References -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	20 black & white illustrations; 3 tables
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5261-5399-8 / 1526153998
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-5399-9 / 9781526153999
Zustand	Neuware