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@article{ART002954190},
author={정해영},
title={Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China},
journal={Asia Review},
issn={2234-0386},
year={2023},
volume={13},
number={1},
pages={165-196}

TY - JOUR
AU - 정해영
TI - Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China
JO - Asia Review
PY - 2023
VL - 13
IS - 1
PB - 아시아연구소
SP - 165
EP - 196
SN - 2234-0386
AB - This article highlights the dynamics of persisting migrant workers’ poor housing conditions in the city and is based on field research at a new town project in suburban Tianjin, China. Scholars have emphasized that migrant workers’ poor housing conditions are material embodiments of their marginalized positions in the city with the persistence of the hukou system preventing the migrants from access to public services. While the new town government has provided public dormitories for improving living conditions for migrant construction workers, their rough renting residence outside has been maintained in the new town. I argue that the state of suspension of migrant workers is rather important for reproducing their housing conditions in the city. Construction workers, as transient migrants who keep moving and conduct intensive labor, are not concerned about better living conditions in the urban areas where their construction sites are located. The workers prefer the rough housing conditions in the city for their convenience of the intensive use and efficient daily reproduction of their labor for the sake of their imagined better future. The recent landcentered development, which triggers the construction boom in China, also shapes their conditions of suspension in the city with their imagined future around pursuing urban home ownership near their hometown.
KW - Chinese construction workers;migrant housing;suspension;dormitory labor regime;land-centered development
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정해영. (2023). Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China. Asia Review, 13(1), 165-196.

정해영. 2023, "Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China", Asia Review, vol.13, no.1 pp.165-196.

정해영 "Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China" Asia Review 13.1 pp.165-196 (2023) : 165.

정해영. Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China. 2023; 13(1), 165-196.

정해영. "Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China" Asia Review 13, no.1 (2023) : 165-196.

정해영. Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China. Asia Review, 13(1), 165-196.

정해영. Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China. Asia Review. 2023; 13(1) 165-196.

정해영. Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China. 2023; 13(1), 165-196.

정해영. "Suspension of Housing in the City: Construction Workers and Migrant Housing Conditions in China" Asia Review 13, no.1 (2023) : 165-196.