China''s Citizenship Challenge - Labour Ngos and the Struggle for Migrant Workers'' Rights

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.

List of contents

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 Weiguan activism and its limits
5 Labour activism beyond the law

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

Conclusion: Citizenship challenge, social inequality and the insecure state

Appendices
References

About the author

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Malgorzata Jakimow, Malgorzata Jakimów
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781526153999
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5399-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Civil rights & citizenship, Urban communities, Civics and citizenship, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law, Urban communities / city life