Appendix: What Is the Floating Population?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Acknowledgments xix
7. 1 Introduction Citizenship, Markets, and the State 1
8. Appendix: What Is the Floating Population? 15
9. PART ONE Structure
10. 2 State Policies I: Turning Peasants into Subjects 27
11. 3 Urban Bureaucracies I: Migrants and Institutional Change 56
12. 4 The Urban Rationing Regime I: Prejudice and Public Goods 100
13. PART TWO Agency
14. 5 State Policies II: The Floating Population Leaves Its Rural Origins 149
15. 6 Urban Bureaucracies II: Peasants Enter Urban Labor Markets 194
16. 7 The Urban Rationing Regime II: Coping Outside It and Alternate Citizenship 241
17. Conclusion: Floating to Where? Citizenship and the Logic of the Market in a Time of Systemic Transition 277
18. Notes 291
19. Bibliography 373
20. Index 413