New Generation Of Migrant Workers Research Articles

Anxious or Differentiation? The Impacting of the New Generation of Migrant Workers’ Growing Demand Strength on Their Organizational Identification and Intra-Job Embedded

After getting rid of the survival of rationality among the first generation of migrant workers, 160 million population of new generation of migrant workers in China are treating migrant to work in cities as seeking better lifestyle changes and more development needs. They have more work high expectations and are more focused on self-realization of career. However, in the face of institutional barriers and social exclusion, what were the hidden influence factors that impacted their organizational identity and embedded for their behaviors as helpless and differentiation? From the perspective of growth need strength, this article has selected the relevant measurement scales to verify their positive and interference effect of the new generation of migrant workers embedded within organizational identification. The results show that growth need strength influences positively on their organizational identification and intra-job embeddedness. The effecting relation is also interfered partially by their growth need strength. Conclusions can enhance the organizational identification and job intra-embeddedness, and improve their performance of the new generation of migrant workers.

Investigation and Study on Employment Status of Migrant Workers in Heilongjiang Province

With the gradual acceleration of urbanization speed and continuous improvements of agricultural productivity, the number of migrant workers is increasing. The living conditions of this group in cities determine the quality of urbanization in China, and are of great and far-reaching significance to Chinese construction of comprehensive well-off society. This study took the migrant workers in Heilongjiang Province as the research object, and took the representative new-generation migrant workers as the respondent to have a comprehensive analysis of the employment status. The study focused on these aspects, such as nature information, employment selection, employment quality, and social security, etc. Finally, it provided valuable ideas and methods on the reasonable solutions of the employment problems of the migrant workers to better increase farmers’ income and improve their living qualities.

新生代农民工幸福感影响因素研究

本研究的目的是考察新生代农民工幸福感的影响因素。以175名新生代农民工为研究对象，采用综合幸福问卷和自编影响因素问卷，考察了新生代农民工幸福感的现状及影响因素。结果发现：1) 新生代农民工幸福感的水平不高；2) 性别、年龄、婚姻状况、收入对新生代农民工幸福感影响显著；3) 认为自己是否是农民以及想不想改变农民身份对新生代农民工的幸福感均存在显著影响。 To investigate impact factors of the new generation of migrant workers’ well-being, 175 migrant workers were surveyed by multiple happiness questionnaire (MHQ) and self-developed ques-tionnaire of impact factors to investigate the status of well-being and impact factors. The results showed that: 1) the level of the new generation of migrant workers’ well-being is not high; 2) the demographic variables such as gender, age, marriage, and income have influenced the new gener-ation of migrant workers’ well-being significantly; 3) both the identity of farmer and the willingness to change farmer identity have influenced the new generation of migrant workers’ well- being significantly.

Governance of New-Generation Migrant Worker Crime: An Analysis Based on Social Deviance Theory

Due to different life style and values, crime characteristics of the new-generation migrant workers are different from that of the first-generation migrant workers. Reasons for new-generation migrant worker crime can be explained by the theory of social deviance. Governance of new-generation migrant worker crime requires establishment of fair social security system, improvement in their cultural life, strength in their legal education and vocational training, as well as progress in services for new-generation migrant workers.

Settlement by Territorial Proximity and Urbanization of China's New-Generation of Migrant Workers

Using multinomial logistic regressions, this paper examines the settlement tendency of Chinese New-generation of Migrant Workers through a field survey by means of one to one interviews. It has found that they tend to choose to settle in small and medium-sized cities near their hometowns. And their individual occupation and household economic status show significant effects on their future settlement in cities.

The Physical and Psychological Mechanisms of Educational Inequality and Intervention Strategies: The Case of Migrant Workers’ Children

Using multiple methods including questionnaires, in-depth interviews, participant observation and field experiments, we have identified two social-psychological mechanisms in educational inequality: the self-fulfilling prophecy of parental expectations at home and the threat of stereotyping encountered at school. The physical mechanism of educational inequality is manifested in the poor health of migrant workers’ children and their devalued behavior. Targeting these physical and psychological mechanisms, we have designed two simple but effective intervention strategies to raise the children’s academic achievement: passing on the incremental theory of intelligence and establishing a multiple assessment system. These intervention strategies effectively improved the children’s academic performance, increased their identification with learning, and lowered the stereotype threat. It is hoped that these strategies can be applied to the new generation of migrant workers entering the labor market.

Measurement Research on Industrial Workers in China

The paper studied the factors that made the new generation of migrant workers transform in to the industrial workers by the questionnaire for them in china. On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of the new generation of migrant worker groups, the implementation approaches of their industrialization has been researched from the following four aspects: their on quality, psychological identity, economic base and social environment with the help of structural equation modle. Measures that transformed the new generation of migrant workers into industrial workers had been proposed according to the result of this study.

Research on Influencing Factors of Anxiety and Their Mechanism of Action in New Generation of Migrant Workers

Research on Influencing Factors of Anxiety and Their Mechanism of Action in New Generation of Migrant Workers

Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City

China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes towards living and working form an increasing share of the migrant labour force. At the same time, the destinations of migrants are changing as a result of government policies and the global financial crisis. More migrants than before find jobs in medium and small size cities, often located in western and central China. Understanding the characteristics and attitudes of the changing migrant labour force is becoming a major challenge in sustainably managing migration flows and urbanization. Little hard evidence is available on the working conditions and job attitudes of migrant workers, particularly for inland China. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the characteristics, working conditions and job attitudes of the new generation of migrants, defined as those born in the 1980s and 1990s, as compared to the traditional generation in a typical medium-size city in western China. Data collected through a household survey conducted among 1,048 migrants in Guiyang City, capital of Guizhou Province, are used for this purpose. We find significant differences in occupational characteristics and working conditions between the two generations. Contrary to popular beliefs, we find that the level of job satisfaction is higher among the new generation of migrants. Using an ordered logit model to examine factors contributing to job satisfaction, we find that age and gender do not have a significant impact for young migrants, while working conditions play a major role. Among these, it is not so much the income level that matters for young migrants, but other working conditions. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, we derive that it is mainly the difference in working conditions and other endowments that explains the higher job satisfaction of young migrants, not the differences between generations in the valuations of these endowments.

The Spatial Politics of Labor in China: Life, Labor, and a New Generation of Migrant Workers

China’s capitalist transformation offers us a non-Western perspective to understand the contradictions of transnational capital mobility, the working people’s lives, and the changing role of the state. This economic and social transformation continues to require the acceleration of a specific proletarianization—successive generations of rural migrant workers (nongmingong) have become the mainstay of the country’s export-processing sector, but they cannot become “free” laborers in the market. Within the dormitory labor regime, in which work and residence are tightly interconnected, workers turn the workplace and dormitory spaces into a battlefield to fight for their rights. Foxconn’s cost-efficient use of dormitory labor ensures that its more than one million workers spend their off-hours just preparing for another round of production. Paradoxically, workers are claiming the limited living space and time to create and remix culturally diversified repertoires in struggles. Class analysis, as a weapon of progressive social change, has to be recast in the lived experience of the working class, in relation to party-state rhetoric.