Housing and Household Registration Problem of Young Workers without Local Permanent Residency Permits in Beijing

• Main Author: 陳胤祖
• Other Authors: 邱炫元
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13087006437146623026

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 104 === The study discusses the situations of floating population in big cities in China. The author especially views youth floating population in cities as object of research, probes their geographical and social position in cities so as to study their living condition and social mobility, and points out how institutional factors lead to their living and social mobility problems in cities. First of all, Beijing is the field of research, and Ant Tribe is the original type of object of research in the study. According to the research outcome, because Beijing’s structure of income and industry and its structure of planning and development changed, Ant Tribe’s income level and living condition have improved. Moreover, since the concept of Ant Tribe exist contradictions itself, there are limitations while the author uses the concept of Ant Tribe. As a result, the author extends the concept of Ant Tribe, proposes the broader concept called Young Workers without Local Permanent Residency Permits, and views them as object of research in the study. In the meanwhile, as the proposer of the concept of Ant Tribe, Lian Si’s Ant Tribe studies lack of discussions on Ant Tribe’s living space “inhabited village,” so the study discusses the definition, character, and forming context of inhabited villages. Furthermore, “Yung Wang village” is the case study, and the author explains how the village forms under the interaction of population migration, geographical space, social structure, and governmental policies. What’s more, the demolition of inhabited villages reveals problems of the floating population’s living right in cities. Due to the broader scope of concept than Ant Tribe, inhabited villages are not the only living space for Young Workers without Local Permanent Residency Permits. They not only may live in informal settlements, such as partitioned rooms, basements, and alleys constructed disorderly, but also may live in formal settlements, such as housing estates and faculty dormitories in campuses. Besides, each kind of settlements has different living properties. According one’s demand, Young Workers without Local Permanent Residency Permits will choose the settlements most appropriate for them to live in. In this way, their living space appears to be various, shows the meaning of class, and reveals the serious problems of housing poverty. In addition, the author investigated the migration motives of Young Workers without Local Permanent Residency Permits, and found that although economic factor is still the main reason for them to migrate, social and cultural factors have an impact on their motives to migrate to big cities at the same time. However, many of them don’t intend to stay in Beijing in the long run, because they can’t afford houses in Beijing, their occupations’ prospects are not well, their economic condition doesn’t improve in the long run, and they can’t acquire local permanent residency permits in Beijing. Hence, they tend to regard their working experiences in Beijing as self-training, and leave for second or third-tier cities or return to their hometown so as to seek better opportunities by their working experiences in Beijing. In the end, according to the research outcome, Young Workers without Local Permanent Residency Permits are difficult to reach upward mobility, even though their income level has improved after they worked for some years. However, most of their income level only paces up and down the average of income level of staff and workers in Beijing. What’s worse, the household registration system sets some restrict limitations on floating population, which make them hard to access the resources and rights of house and education in Beijing, obstructing them to reach real upward mobility. Also, the differentiation of residency permits brings about the special married mechanism between locals and outsiders in Beijing. On the basis of the unequal status of resources and rights, the barriers between people with different residency permits and socioeconomic status are consolidated by means of marriage.