Fracture And Integration: One Study On The Relationship Between The City And The Floating Population Community

As China’s urbanization reform and the rapid opening up, more and morefarmers rush into the cities and inhabit together to form many floating populationcommunities. Here the dilapidated aspects and bottom occupational categorieswhich don’t fit with the city have attracted many scholars’ research interests.Most of the studies focus on their isolated situation and show the negativeinformation that such communities and its residents are excluded from the city,struggling to live, suffering stigma, and subjecting to discrimination.Based on the identification of the "multiple" perspective, this paper attemptsto get rid of the current privative research perspective that regard such area as anatomized subject, and use unstructured interview and non-participant observationof the fieldwork methods going into “Fan Lin” community to research theinteraction and relationship between such community and the city from thecomparied view of insiders and outsiders. In this survey, the study found thatfrom an outsider’s view, this kind of region and its residents present some"rupture" relationship with the city: the crowded community space, lack ofservices and frastructure, suffering the social dilemma in the "stigmatized"situation, and being excluded from the management department. However, withgoing into such community and the inhabitants’ lives, the author found that theirdynamic informal economy has established industry chain model, and productedhuge economic benefits. The junkmen are taking the important role inclassification of resources and the environment optimization. The education offloating population’s children in this city also has made great progress with manyintegration opportunity. The "fracture" is only a kind of superficial phenomenoncaused by objective factors,"integration" is the essential relationship beneath thesurface and also is the inevitable trend of urban development.The author always believed that urban should be open and diversified, andthe urban redevelopment should adhere to the concept of ‘acceptance’ and‘integration’. Therefore, this study is engaged in revealing to people the valueand the rationality of such community in the city. Only in this way can we realizetheir indispensability to urban development, and help them in their standpoint tointegrate into the city, thereby establishing a diverse and vibrant modern c ity!...