Brandi Styn GEO 575 Review of Migration to urban centers of the Global Periphery
Zhu’s China’s floating population and their intention in the cities: Beyond the Hukou reform, Dandekar’s Changing Migration Strategies in Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1885 – 1990, and MacDonald and Winklerprins’s Searching for a Better Life: Peri-Urban Migration in Western Para State, Brazil all wrote about migration to urban centers of the Global Periphery.
Zhu wrote about three theories, first was the dual labor market theory from Piore in 1979. This was a capital versus labor concept. Demand was low causing labor layoffs and temporary migrant labor to replace them. Next was the New economics of labor migration theory from Stark in 1991. This was a maximize income while minimizing risk concept. Migrants were still in their hometowns and these hometowns were an asset that could generate profit. The third theory was mobility transition theory by Zelinsky in 1971. This was about how societies would change over time and create a new mode of production. As the society would …show more content…
Zhu wrote about the social structure of China and how the Hukou created a hindrance to the migration process as the lower class of the rural peasants did not have the same rights and opportunities as the higher class of the urban citizens. However, Dandekar wrote about the waxing and waning industry of India and how that created a steady stream of migrants. The growing and changing cities also created a migration from one city to another which resembled the theory of Zelinsky’s mobility transition theory. Finally, MacDonald and Winklerprins wrote about resetting between rural and urban zones. They also wrote about two types of migrants the urban rich that were looking for a simpler life in the rural zone and the rural poor that were looking for a better life in the urban zone. This would be a common concept with Zhu and Hukou of societal
Zhu’s China’s floating population and their intention in the cities: Beyond the Hukou reform, Dandekar’s Changing Migration Strategies in Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1885 – 1990, and MacDonald and Winklerprins’s Searching for a Better Life: Peri-Urban Migration in Western Para State, Brazil all wrote about migration to urban centers of the Global Periphery.
Zhu wrote about three theories, first was the dual labor market theory from Piore in 1979. This was a capital versus labor concept. Demand was low causing labor layoffs and temporary migrant labor to replace them. Next was the New economics of labor migration theory from Stark in 1991. This was a maximize income while minimizing risk concept. Migrants were still in their hometowns and these hometowns were an asset that could generate profit. The third theory was mobility transition theory by Zelinsky in 1971. This was about how societies would change over time and create a new mode of production. As the society would …show more content…
Zhu wrote about the social structure of China and how the Hukou created a hindrance to the migration process as the lower class of the rural peasants did not have the same rights and opportunities as the higher class of the urban citizens. However, Dandekar wrote about the waxing and waning industry of India and how that created a steady stream of migrants. The growing and changing cities also created a migration from one city to another which resembled the theory of Zelinsky’s mobility transition theory. Finally, MacDonald and Winklerprins wrote about resetting between rural and urban zones. They also wrote about two types of migrants the urban rich that were looking for a simpler life in the rural zone and the rural poor that were looking for a better life in the urban zone. This would be a common concept with Zhu and Hukou of societal