They often become ‘drifting tenants’, frequently driven by urban renewal, rising rentals and change of jobs. Without residency permits granted by the host cities, low-wage rural migrants enjoy little ‘right to the city’ and are deprived of local welfare and benefits. In supporting such movements, labour mobility is allowed but the hukou system has been retained to prevent urban informality and slum formation and to control municipal public expenses. In the post-Mao era from the 1980s, market reforms have seen profit-led neoliberal forces being introduced into China’s urban spatial movements. (2013), Low-wage migrants in northwestern Beijing, China: The hikers in the urbanisation and growth process.
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