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171915
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While internal migration in contemporary China ascribes a great change to urban China's demographic composition, social structures and economic development trajectories, it is yet to restructure the formal definitions of urban identity and belonging, which are still dominated by the household registration system (hukou). The paper suggests that as a result of changes in the political, economic, demographic and social contexts within which China's internal migration develops, there emerge a crucial need to re‐examine the crude forms of determining identity and belonging, questioning the addressing of spatiality within the existing mechanisms (such as hukou system or the shiminhua discourse). To do so, the paper argues that the existing de‐territorialisation of the migration experience has to be replaced with a more nuanced understanding of how spatial practices and conceptualisations shape migrants’ experiences, as it is becoming imperative to develop a new framework that is more sensitive to migrants’ lived process of identification and belonging, especially as these traverse multiple geographies and spatial scales. This close engagement with migrants’ spatiality can then be used as a base from which to engage with a more complex view of migrants’ spatial and social relatedness, as well as the development of their urban belonging and identity.
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090119
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During the 1980s and 1990s, a "dominant discourse" of internal migration developed in China, portraying the migrants' contribution to China's economic development while highlighting the social problems associated with rural-to-urban migration. In recent years one can trace a shift, evident in academic research, popular and media rhetoric, and policy formulation, toward a more migrant-centered narrative. This article aims to show that this change was in part the result of an emerging alternative discourse-initially created by a cultural avant-garde-representing a growing interest in migration and an ambivalent and even sympathetic view toward migrants, their social quandaries, impact on urban society, and opportunities for integration. In the examination of this alternative discourse, the article reviews contemporary visual representations of migration and the surrounding discussions (at public events, in scholarly works, and on the internet), which reveal the creation of a sociocultural "public sphere." By unearthing the alternative discourse, the dialectical connection between discourse and social change is brought to light, as these visual works not only reflected a complex reality but also contributed to remodeling it.
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