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China's Moving Population PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:22
Tags china - migrant - migrants
 Last week, I found myself sloshing through sewer-infested water up to the thighs after a deluge of rain hit a migrant community I was visiting in Shanghai.  The community was tucked away in a pocket within the city and structures of economics had forced the poorest into the lowest lying areas of the district.  Migrants sat and watched as
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Livelihood - News Articles
Demand for restaurant staff up PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 23:51
Tags lack of labor - restaurants - minimum wage - new generation - waiter - MRN - Migrant Resource Network - China
Many restaurants in Beijing are experiencing increasing labor shortages and are looking for staff to fill positions urgently.About 80 percent of the restaurants in Beijing have reported a "labor drought," reported the Legal Mirror. Accountants, security guards, and even cooks are becoming waiters in restaurants, which are finding it hard to
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Civil Society - News Articles
Migrants should become political stakeholders PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:33
Tags electoral system - voting rights - floating population - electoral law - voter registration system - hukou - MRN - Migrant Resource Network - China
Editor's Note: China has a floating population of 180 million in 2009, drifting from place to place in search of work or migrating from their countryside hometowns to the cities. What prevent them from taking part in China's nascent electoral system? How can their voting rights be protected?Global Times (GT) reporter Li Yanjie talked with
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Finance & Economics - News Articles
China's Minimum Wage One of the Lowest in the World - 'World Wage Research' exposes fundamental problem PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:26
Tags minimum wage - World Wage Research - WWR - development - social justice - MRN - Migrant Resource Network - China
China’s minimum wage is lower than that in 32 African countries, and is almost the lowest in the world, according to “World Wage Research” (“WWR”), a widely viewed report circulated on China’s major Web sites and blogs. “China’s average annual wage is less than 15 percent of the world average, ranking 158th in the world,”
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Health - News Articles
100 Million Chinese Migrate, Concern H1N1 Will Spike PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 03 January 2010 02:08
Tags 100 Million Chinese Migrate - Concern H1N1 Will Spike - flu warning - public health - MRN - Migrant Resource Network - China
Migrant workers returning to their homes for holidays in January and February will trigger another spike in the H1N1 epidemic in mainland China, according to U.S. virologist, Dr. Lin Xiaoxu.Almost half of the 225 million migrants are expected to return home by the Chinese New Year at the beginning of February, according to China's National
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Livelihood - News Articles
China's migrant reforms will help economy PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 28 December 2009 01:18
Tags household registration system - equal rights - urbanization - MRN - Migrant Resource Network - China
Premier Wen Jiabao says China will reform its household registration system to guarantee equal rights for migrant workers as they resettle in urban centers.Since the 1950s, the system has categorized Chinese citizens as either urbanites or non-urbanites, and has not allowed rural people to migrate freely to urban areas, the Xinhua news agency
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