Rural‐Urban Migration and Domestic Land Grabbing in China

• DOI: 10.1002/psp.1830
• Publication Date: 2013-11-06T23:38:41Z
• Authors: Giuseppina Siciliano
• Keywords: Land Grabbing; Expropriation; Commodification; Environmental degradation

ABSTRACT Domestic land grabbing is defined as the process of expropriation and displacement put in place by governments within their country borders to supposedly enhance development. Although development‐induced occurs all over world, China responsible for a large fraction such type resettlement projects. Urban sprawl commodification food security agricultural modernization are main consequences domestic country. Albeit attention towards implications urbanization projects on social stability has recently increased, studies which try identify drivers, well look at impacts, trade‐offs migrant views, still rare. Drawing case study from rural island east China, this paper analyses relation (i) tenure rights compensation measures, (ii) workers livelihood hukou registration system, (iii) environmental degradation. Results reveal that landless people facing risk unemployment, self‐sufficiency problems mismanagement resettlements. Additionally, bring about higher degradation areas. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.