Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil | Hsiao-Hung Pai | Commen... - 0 views
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Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
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Schools for children of migrant workers in China are being closed down.
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"We live under the same sky, why are we not entitled to the same rights?"
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migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,
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Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools
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rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population
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day-to-day inju
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stices
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hukou (household registration), set up in 1958
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control rural-to-urban migration
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Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.
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as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I am a peasant],"
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Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.
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Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",
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half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.
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As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.
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They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.
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the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.
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The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.
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Without hukou,
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healthcare, education and housing.
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urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
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"These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."
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hundreds such private schools were set up.
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government-funded National Development and Reform Commission
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admits it is an "institutional barrier"
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government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.
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voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities
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Little happens as a result.
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Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.
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protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.
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Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing
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Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
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Migrant workers should have tell the police earlier so they won't be treated so violent.
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Why does the chinese people have to segregated themself, they're from the same country!
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Why do they have to treat people like that? They're all from the same country!
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Beijing "a city of violence"
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I think maybe the urban dwellers pay the government to be on their side and act ruthlessly to the migrant workers.
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Beijing's migrant worker slums
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which means that the migrant workers cannot move to other city or quit their job, they have to work there and got treat badly, ruthlessly.
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"I've had migrant workers tell me about their class origin, as if it were a stamp on your body for life. It was impossible for peasants to move their hukou to the cities." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/20/china-migrant-workers
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are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally
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why dont the government get involve earlier if they already knew what's going on?
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Once the rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion??? that's so not fair and segregated.
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Migrants children are called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools.
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Urban childrens have free primary education while migrants children aren't be able to go to school because their parents cannot afford it. It costs 2/3 of their parents wages.
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Migrants workers continue to be burdened with the hukou system. So they won't be able to access any services in the cities like: helthcare, education or housing. While urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
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"Even the government-funded National Development and Reform Commission admits it is an "institutional barrier" and believes it should be scrapped. However, these institutions aren't in the position to change things. "Protection of migrant workers' rights" is a rhetorical statement of state organisations, but the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands."
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What? the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers demands? Why? They think they're rich so they don't care about other people? These governments should be in jail!
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"Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration. " What??? There's no reason why they hate the migrants workers and childrens! They're all from the same root! They don't have a right to do this?
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"In recent years, migrants have raised their demands through protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes. Although these have not always proved effective, workers have become more aware of their collective strength. In the past year they have won some improvements in wages and working conditions. Many migrant workers, now better informed, are far less willing to accept the status quo. As they grow in confidence, the regime will find it increasingly difficult to ignore their demands. China's rulers should realise now that it is in their long-term interests to listen." YES, they really should do this to show the government that they have a right to complain about what's right or wrong! If you're rich still doesn't mean that you have all the rights to do anything you want.
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In China, poor migrants who earn a living by working low calss jobs in Beijing is treated unfairly. The chinese public schools, especialy nursery schools, would not let the migrant's children be enrolled. Yet, migrants are treated differently than Beijing citizens, and they can't have a normal life. -
