A Study Of Internal Differentiation And Differences In Citizenization Level Of Migrant Workers

Migrant workers is a transition group that is formed in the process of industrialization and modernization in our China. According to development economics and international experience, the fundamental way out for this group is citizenization. This is inevitable trend with the development of industrialization and urbanization, and this is also very important for solving the problem of agriculture, rural areas, farmers and the construction of a well-off society in an all-round way. With the transformation in structure of economy and society, population, labor market, there is more and more obvious division among migrant workers which makes the problem about this group more complex. As a result, the realization of this group’s citizenization will be a long and hard social project and we must operate it in order and step by step and we can’t be too ambitious. Thus, the study on splits within migrant workers has great significance on realizing this population’s citizenization.Based on theories on social stratification and labor migration, this paper firstly discusses the reasons on division within migrant workers from macroscopic and microscopic aspects. Secondly, using the data from our social survey, we divide these surveyed peasant-workers into four types in the way of K-means cluster and analyze every type’s characteristics and we find that they’re different from each other. Thirdly, we build the model for calculating the level of citizenization of migrant workers and it indicates that it exists large differences on every type’s citizenization level. Lastly, we pointedly put forward some suggestions aiming at quickening the space of citizenization.This paper mainly includes the following four parts:The first part is this paper’s study basis corresponding to chapter 1 and chapter 2. This part mainly introduces the background, purpose, significance, thoughts, possible innovation points and insufficiency of this research. It also defines the related concepts and makes a summary about the existing literature.The second part is the theoretical analysis for internal differentiation corresponding to chapter 3. We discuss the reasons why the migrant workers are divided into different types from the accelerating process of industrialization, deepening reform in rural areas and changes of population and labor market structure on the macroscopic aspects and from peasant-workers themselves on the microscopic aspects.The third part is empirical analysis corresponding to chapter 4 and chapter 5. Using the data from our social survey, we choose age, education, work-time for a year in cities, income, consumption as the variable indicators and divide those surveyed peasant-workers into four types by the way of K-means cluster. Then we discuss every type’s group identify and calculate each type’s citizenization level especially the new generation of migrant workers among them. We find that the citizenization of these surveyed migrant workers is at the mid-stage and the four types’ citizenization level is higher and higher. We also find that the new generation’s citizenization level is higher than the overall average.The fourth part is suggestions corresponding to chapter 6. According to the above research, we make some suggestions to push the process of migrant workers’ citizenization from the following aspects: removing institutional barriers, promoting the capital level of peasant-workers, building reasonable mechanism to share costs, advancing citizenization project through differentiated ways, especially pay attention to the new generation of migrant workers.