Research On Living Conditions Of Landless Peasants During Urbanization Process

With the accelerating process of urbanization, urban construction increasingly demands for land, currently China’s urbanization process is mainly through the expropriation of agricultural land for urban construction, this process will lead to the survival of farmers lost their source of livelihood ——the land, it accompanied by various livelihood problems of survival, employment, development, giving rise to a new group —— the landless peasants. Since 2005 Tianjin implemented as one of "Twenty public works" of "House with Exchange Policy", under the policy guidance, farmers use their homestead and farmland enchant a town home building and get some financial compensation, moved into the city from the countryside cottage buildings, what will occur about landless peasants? Land can be said that the lifeblood of farmers, as farmers do not have land, they lost not only the land, as well as a guarantee on the farmers, how to solve their clothing, food, shelter. What are the real life situation like? Do they adapt to urban life? Many issues are involved with the vital interests of farmers, we need to hear their voices!Based on the real life situation of landless peasants, using the basic paradigm of qualitative research, participant observation, unstructured interviews and other specific methods of 11 peasants in the village of G Tianjin West Tsing District investigation and data collection, from the structural and cultural status to render the existence of landless peasants, and understand the factors that influence on their survival, combined with Giddens’ structuring theory and Bourdieu’s field theory to discuss and analysis, and try to make recommendations for reference and measures to help them solve their difficulties and problems encountered in daily life, helping them to adapt to urban life.The study found that the two elements of the external structure and internal culture shape each other, and jointly constructing the living condition of landless peasants, this process of continuous production and strengthen the segment and differentiate between landless peasants and city resident, resulting in the presence of the villagers of the city, there is the village of their presence is not physical space on the form, nor domicile significance, but the presence of cultural significance. With a population of landless peasants, there are individual differences in the degree of structure and culture, with the present situation of landless peasants living, there are individual differences in state, from the point of view of this study, the city is still the villagers as an absolute number of landless peasants. Finally, according to research findings combined with landless peasants living conditions, proposed to improve and protect the living standards of landless peasants from the government, communities, individuals suggestions: Firstly, it would guarantee the survival of landless peasants into the urban development and urban-rural integration planning; Second is the power play to the community, for the peasants to survive and create a good community environment; Third is to improve their quality of landless peasants and labor skills, expand their employment.