The Peoples' Republic of China (PRC)

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This paper explains how liberalization, capitalist activities and new urbanization have created internal migration within mainland China where regulated movement was normal into the 1980s. The author points out that this migration has created new wealth, waged labor, more minority member arrivals in cities and women migrants. The paper relates that the old family-oriented strategies also have driven this internal migration.

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"When one looks at a map of the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) one always sees a larger number of noted towns and cities as the eye moves, west to east. Until the late 1980s, the state controlled the growth of urban centers, carefully, and with people's movement limited towards the cities. Migration control policies worked to help the economy, stopping over-population in areas without employment, while seeing that labor was provided as needed, in other areas. The change to `Marketization' meant that the central government's control over the movement of peoples began to decline."

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