Dual-locational Households:Livelihood Strategies of Rural Migrant Workers

LI Xiangzhen  （Wuhan University）

 

Abstract:Influenced by traditional cultural habits,Chinese peasants tend to choose dual-locational households mode to cope with the risk of uncertainty associated with marketization.In this mode,in response to the social risk of urban life,migrant rural workers give different social functions to cities and villages.City means that the source of income to obtain a temporary place while the village is to provide a variety of relief mechanisms of emotional sustenance.To meet the different demands of life,migrant rural workers swing continuously between the urban and rural areas.This has,to some extent,challenged the theory of urban and rural binary opposition.The study of the livelihoods of migrant workers and the cultural mechanism of the swing between urban and rural areas is conducive to breaking the prejudice that the urban and rural areas are regarded as mutually antagonistic social forms.What’s more,it also has practical significance to explore the urbanization of China’s road and promote the process of urbanization in good governance of the grassroots community.

Key words:Dual-locational Households; rural-urban divided structure; migrant rural workers; livelihood strategies