The migrants’ inhabitance elicited mixed response from the urban residents. Whilst there was an extensive appreciation for peasant work, urban workplace contained new structures of control and discrimination targeted against ones of recent rural origin. By the mid-1990s, it was customary in the media to define the rural migrants as “blind floaters,” formally known as “floating population.” One well-known journalistic account asserted that the ubiquity of rural migrants in metropolises was large, but their movement confronted knowledge since they were directionless. As affairs of policy analysis at varying levels of administration, they were known as floaters. However, according to surveys, the vast plurality had pre-arranged works in cities prior to the migration and that more than 93% of peasants had moved for financial reasons (Guang). Rural migrants were the indicators of new market connections to the reformers — far from being blind
The migrants’ inhabitance elicited mixed response from the urban residents. Whilst there was an extensive appreciation for peasant work, urban workplace contained new structures of control and discrimination targeted against ones of recent rural origin. By the mid-1990s, it was customary in the media to define the rural migrants as “blind floaters,” formally known as “floating population.” One well-known journalistic account asserted that the ubiquity of rural migrants in metropolises was large, but their movement confronted knowledge since they were directionless. As affairs of policy analysis at varying levels of administration, they were known as floaters. However, according to surveys, the vast plurality had pre-arranged works in cities prior to the migration and that more than 93% of peasants had moved for financial reasons (Guang). Rural migrants were the indicators of new market connections to the reformers — far from being blind