Investigation On The Assurance Housing For City Migration Farm Workers Of Weifang City

Along with the urban development, the economic gap between city and rural area, grows with time. More and more farmers give up agriculture production and move to city to seek work as migrant workers. This has formed a spectacular tideway of migration for farmer turn to migrant workers. These migrant workers have contributed greatly to the economic development of a city; yet, their living situations are in the worst condition among all citizens. This has created serious social conflicts. In time, this certainly will lead to social disharmony and unrest. After reviewed domestic and foreign research related to this issue, the subject of this thesis devotes to study the living condition of migrants in WeiFang City has been chosen. The author has conducted investigation on the living situations and locations of migrant workers in WeiFang City with the hope to find the root of problems and to propose some suggestion for possible improvement. Hope this may provide positive impacts on the living conditions of migrant farm worker in WeiFang City and to a larger scale, nationwide.This thesis is based on theories generated in this country and abroad.on related issues, self-generated research methodology and conducted field investigation of the working and living conditions of the migrant workers of WeiFang City. The subjects of this thesis are migrants living in the city and rural boarder regions, villages within the city and migrant gathering places. Questioners are used to conduct the survey; based on the thorough knowledge of living situations of WeiFang City migrants, a systematic analysis of the cause for these conditions has been conducted. The author concludes there are two primary reasons to cause the current living situation of migrants; on one side, the self-generated issue of migrant farm workers. In general, their education and culture background hiders they from integrated into social mainstream and they can only congregate on the peripheral of the city. At the same time, their incomes are usually lower, insufficient to improve living standards. The other reason for the migrants hard to integrate is the society; all along they have been limited by the household-registration-system and the biases of city people toward farmers; this has" prohibited migrant farm worker to be quickly merged with the major-social stream.Built upon the’analysis of solutions to low-income-housing issues, domestic or foreign, and the collecting and organizing many national policies to resolve low-income family housing; the author proposes some possible solutions. This author believes that the government should expand the improvement on the commerce and gathering areas for migrant workers and each region should include migrant farm works in the guarantee low-rent housing as soon as possible.