Life in limbo for China's migrant families
Within this article, it talks about
how the government is trying to force the migrants that have moved into
Beijing, China back out. These migrants have moved to Beijing to look for or
have found jobs. In the article it states, “In China, families are registered
as rural or urban”. Those who are rural migrants live in the “shaded” areas. In
these areas there is little access to healthcare, social security, and public
education. These three systems are all apart of China’s Hukou System. With this system, the households have to be
registered. The migrated families have to register for the towns that they came
from not the cities that they moved to; therefore, making it harder for the
families to receive public services. Not only will these migrated families have
to move back but also their children will lose possibly their only type of
education or the type of education could decline. It is also said that Beijing
is in the process of trying to change the Hukou System but the downfall of this
is that most of the social services are funded by local cities and not the
national government.
This article is a troubling
article. Mainly because you think of all the children that would not be able to
receive a decent education due to their family having to move. It could be
possible for the local government and the national government to work together
on creating jobs as well as giving the migrant families a place to stay even if
it would be on the outskirts of the city. The government could also work
together to revise the Hukou System to the point where it would work for
everyone within the region even the country.
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