3.5 Migration

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Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society Part 1

8 calificaciones

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society Part 1

8 calificaciones

This course seeks to turn learners into informed consumers of social science research. It introduces concepts, standards, and principles of social science research to the interested non-expert. Learners who complete the course will be able to assess evidence and critically evaluate claims about important social phenomena. It reviews the origins and development of social science, describes the process of discovery in contemporary social science research, and explains how contemporary social science differs from apparently related fields. It describes the goals, basic paradigms, and methodologies of the major social science disciplines. It offers an overview of the major questions that are the focus of much contemporary social science research, overall and for China. Special emphasis is given to explaining the challenges that social scientists face in drawing conclusions about cause and effect from their studies, and offers an overview of the approaches that are used to overcome these challenges. Explanation is non-technical and does not involve mathematics. Statistics and quantitative methods are not covered. Explore the big questions in social science and learn how you can be a critical, informed consumer of social science research. Course Overview video: https://youtu.be/QuMOAlwhpvU After you complete Part 1, enroll in Part 2 to learn how to be a PRODUCER of Social science research. Part 2: https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-science-research-chinese-society

De la lección

Social Science Research on China

In Week 3, we will focus on Social Science Research on China. By the end of this week, you should have some sense of major topics in current social science research on China.

3.1 Overview3:06

3.2 Change and continuity7:42

3.4 Population aging5:23

3.5 Migration4:10

3.6 Education, Health, and Wellbeing11:46

3.7 Summary3:56

Conoce a los instructores

Cameron Campbell
Professor of Social Science
Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science

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Hi.

In this module, I'd like to introduce you to some of

the questions that are coming up in current research on migration in China.

One of the big topics in social science research for studying China.

Since the 1980s, the number of people who are living away from their homes or

moving away from their homes in China has increased enormously.

Young people have been moving from rural areas into the cities.

And in doing so they have provided the cheap labor that allowed

China's economic miracle of the last two decades to take place.

As a result,

the share of China's population that is living in cities has risen rapidly.

People, again, have moved away from the countryside.

Many of these migrants, however, and this is a very big problem for

social scientists.

Many of these migrants do not have a official or

complete status in the cities in which they live.

They remain second-class or second-tier citizens, even after they move into

the cities, and do not necessarily enjoy all of the social services available.

So to dramatize the recent changes in the share of the population that's on the move

in China, just look at the year 2000 when only about

11.41% of the population was living away from home.

By 2010 that had reached nearly 20%.

Of course, China has a big population, now over 1.3 billion,

so we're talking about a lot of people.

So some of the big questions that social science researchers

are looking at when they study migration in China, is first of all,

trying to understand what the consequences are for

migrants when they move into the cities with their children.

Of being, essentially, lower class citizens in those cities.

So because of their structure of the household registration,

after moving into the cities, they're still considered rural residents.

And they don't have, again, as I mentioned,

complete access to city services.

Their children may not be able to attend local schools.

They may have difficulty accessing healthcare.

This has big implications for

the wellbeing of the rural migrants who have moved to China's largest cities.

Another big issue is understanding what the implications of all this

migration are for the children of migrants who are left behind in their home

villages to be raised by their grandparents or other family elders.

Right now we see estimates that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of children,

are not joining their parents when they migrate to the big cities, but

rather they are staying in their home villages being raised.

Where they may have limited access to schooling and

not much contact with their parents.

This is a really big issue and its the subject of a lot of studies right now.

A related issue is what happens to the elderly

whose adult children have moved off to the big cities.

Again, if you go to rural China these days you're going to see a lot of villages that

almost seem to be ghost towns because all of the adults, the working age adults,

have moved away.

Gone off to the city leaving behind the elderly.

This poses big challenges for taking care of the elderly.

So there's a lot of work to be done

on migration in China in terms of understanding its implications.

And not just for the economy but also for the people involved in migrating.

And for the villages they left behind, and for the cities that they move to.

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