Talk: the fate of migrant workers

Talk: the fate of migrant workers

March 6, 2009/Dong Xiucheng

Migrant workers also called migrants, this name may be referred to as a sociological term or a social phenomenon, if it is a term only Chinese sociology term, if we say that is also afraid of China are social phenomena.

Social problems of migrant workers ' problems are endemic to China, it is a difficult to explain the phenomenon, because this term is contradictory, ambiguous, confusing. Migrant workers are non-non-agricultural workers as yigongyinong but as embarrassment, said to be because he engaged in industrial labor, said to be because he has a farmers ' status. Conversely, he is because he has no urban citizenship, because he does not engage in non-agricultural agriculture.

Talking about this topic, seems to be some heavy, also seems to be boring and meaningless, however this is a phenomenon we have to face, since it is a social reality that seems to be the need to chatter, pipe it boring not boring at all!

Before the reform and opening up, almost completely cut off from urban and rural areas, farmers are farmers, workers are the workers, can limit the two distinct, just like the Earth and the Moon, no one is saying that the Earth is the Moon, of course, no one is saying that the Moon is the Earth, although they are two celestial bodies in the universe.

In those days, district farmers as soldiers, to school or succession replacement workers, and identity change. In the special period, some offspring go to the countryside for poor and middle peasant workers or workers re-education and become farmers, but farmers still is a special farmer, because their roots are in rural areas, will one day fly away.

These special farmers in rural areas subjected to suffering of the farmers have been used for thousands of years, but later they experience is to become of the educated youth in rural injuries and left in the world, a large number of literary works have come out for these knowledge youth hold grievances, which for those from generation to generation of scholars who live in rural areas justice? Is the same person, why circumstances should such differences, did it not worthy of reflection?

Since reform and opening up, farmers flocked to the city, become migrant workers in today's society, building, repairing, road-building shopping malls, most bitter and tired of living, living the most dirty House, bread, muscle family, they are floated in every corner of the city, of course, all eyes and discrimination.

Wife, children came, the children into a second generation migrant workers, the land has not, the rest is their strength.

Economic crisis coming, factory closures, no jobs, manual has no place, returned home without land, did not return no job, no job, no basis for existence.

This is the fate of many contemporary migrant workers! Sad, there isn't!