How far are the left-behind left behind? A preliminary study in rural China
How far are the left-behind left behind? A preliminary study in rural China
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DOI：
10.1002/psp.437
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Biao, Xiang
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作者：
Biao, Xiang
虽然移徙与发展之间的联系引起了学术界和政策界的广泛关注，但对这种联系的一个关键方面，即留在原籍社区的人的研究仍然不足。作为对这一群体进行系统梳理的学术尝试之一，本文描述了这一群体所面临的基本问题，探讨了问题产生的制度原因，并探讨了解决问题的长期和短期途径。本文首先确立了这样一个事实，即虽然似乎是个人决定谁迁移，谁留下，但这种决定存在根本的制度约束。文章接着指出，留守的三个主要群体，即妻子、老人和儿童，面临着各种各样的问题，但总的来说，他们的处境并不比与所有家庭成员一起生活的人差多少。他们的问题不能仅仅归咎于留守个人，而根本原因是许多农村社区作为一个整体在经济和社会方面落后了。虽然移徙加剧了困难，但防止移徙肯定不是解决办法。相反，该文件呼吁采取措施，纠正城乡差距，改善农村社区公共产品的提供。版权所有（c）2006约翰威利父子有限公司。
While the linkage between migration and development has attracted much academic and policy attention, a key aspect of the linkage, namely those left behind in the community of origin, remains under-researched. As one of the first academic attempts to provide a systematic overview of this group in China, this paper describes the basic problems faced by it, discusses the institutional causes of the problems, and explores long-term and short-term solutions. The paper first establishes the fact that, while it seems that individuals decide who migrates and who stays back, there are fundamental institutional constraints on such decisions. The paper then shows that the three main left-behind groups, namely wives, the elderly and children, encounter various problems, but in general their situation is not much worse than that of those living with all family members. Their problems cannot just be attributed to being left-behind individuals; instead, the fundamental cause is that many rural communities as a whole have been left behind economically and socially. Although migration exacerbates the hardship, preventing migration is certainly not a solution. The paper instead calls for measures to redress the urban-rural divide and to improve the provision of public goods in rural communities. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.