Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Urban Inequality and Polarization....Pages 17-28
Neoliberalism and the Urban Poor: A View from Latin America....Pages 29-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Entitlement to the Benefits of Urbanization: Comparing Migrant and Peri-urban ‘Peasants’....Pages 59-71
Property Rights, Citizenship and the Making of the New Poor in Urban China....Pages 72-89
The Strength of Property Rights, Prospects for the Disadvantaged, and Constraints on the Actions of the Politically Powerful in Hong Kong and China....Pages 90-111
Empowerment or Marginalization: Land, Housing and Property Rights in Poor Neighbourhoods....Pages 112-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Rural—Urban Migration in China: Scale, Composition, Pattern and Deprivation....Pages 133-152
Private Rental Housing in ‘Urban Villages’ in Shenzhen: Problems or Solutions?....Pages 153-176
Chinese Urban Villages as Marginalized Neighbourhoods under Rapid Urbanization....Pages 177-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Multiple Deprivations in Urban China: An Analysis of Individual Survey Data....Pages 203-225
Post-reform Residential Segregation in Three Chinese Cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou....Pages 226-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
The Urban Dibao: Guarantee for Minimum Livelihood or for Minimal Turmoil?....Pages 253-277
State-funded Re-employment Training and Participation in Informal Employment in Tianjin....Pages 278-300
What Has Been Marginalized? Marginalization as the Constrained ‘Right to the City’ in Urban China....Pages 301-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-313