Research On The Career Choice Of The First Generation Of Migrant Workers Returning Home From The Perspective Of Life Course ——A Case Of Yanchuan County In Northern Shanxi

Over the past 40 years,the migration of labour from agriculture to cities and towns has been an important and major driver of urbanization,a feature that has been particularly evident since the turn of the twenty-first century.However,under the model of long-distance urbanization,rural economic development is not sufficiently dynamic and sustainable,and the conflict between urban and rural imbalances and incomplete development is becoming more and more prominent.With the overall development of the new urbanization and rural revitalization strategy,the integration of urban and rural areas will be further effectively developed,so as to inject strong vigor into rural revitalization,returning to work will become a new wind outlet,and cultivating the main body of the returning entrepreneurial market to provide strong support has become the focus of work during the 14 th Five-Year Plan period.Based on the theory of life course and Giddens’ delocalization and re-embedding mechanism,taking Yanchuan county,Shaanxi Province,as an example.this study interviewed 6 first-generation migrant workers,and depicted their whole life trajectory according to their self-description of life history,and deeply understood their life course from three stages of early life,urban work and re-employment.In this process,the author describes the "surface" of the urban and rural society in the transition period,and understands the internal logic and connection between individual life and the changes of the times.In the early stage of life,the research objects generally have the starting point of poverty and narrow ascending channel,but also enter the city through the opportunity of reform and opening up.In the stage of urban working,the objects of study have been in the double dilemma of leaving the rural society and blending in the urban society,which makes them neither belong to the city nor to the countryside.Finally,due to the overall economic situation,urban pushing and pulling force and individual rational choice,the subjects returned to their hometown and formed different occupational categories.It is found that the main factors that lead to the career differentiation of the first generation of migrant workers are the specific social and historical conditions,the subjective choice of individuals,the drive and support of relevant network members,the cumulative effect of the past life course and the implicit social and cultural atmosphere.Under the specific background of the times and regions,individuals make rational choices by exerting their subjective initiative,and also cultivate the turning point of life to shape a unique life stage,and form a cumulative effect for the later life process.These factors affect each other,and jointly shape the life process of the first generation of migrant workers,and cumulatively promote the career choice of the first generation of migrant workers after returning home.Through the analysis of the life course of the first generation of returning migrant workers,it is found that the past life prospect of the first generation of migrant workers is based on the result of the mutual construction of the historical space-time,the urban and rural society and the active individuals,which is a continuous mutual construction,it not only created the situation of the individual under the limited social and historical condition,but also gave the individual the freedom of choice,thus shaping the unique life course of the first generation of migrant workers.Similarly,after the first generation of migrant workers returned to their hometowns,the situation under the social and historical conditions created by the continuous compression of time and space and the absence of the main body of rural construction was interwoven with the active individuals,together,they form the premise and basis of the career choice of individual migrant workers after returning home.Based on these findings and reflections,this study proposes that strengthening the support of returning entrepreneurship elements must be based on rural society and historical conditions,through the continuous deepening of household registration system reform;Based on local practice,develop rural industry;Reinventing public spaces and creating platforms for dialogue;To develop rural education and improve the quality of villagers;Rebuilding the organizational structure,activating the built-in vitality,and creating a good situation for rural migrant workers to return to work and start a business.