Editorial – Rural Migrants: On the Fringe of the City, a Bridge to the Countryside

Despite a rate of urbanisation reaching 48 percent in 2010, China’s level of urbanisation lags relative to countries at a comparable level of development. During the country’s economic transformation, urbanisation has been highly regulated through the dual urban-rural resident system of the hukou, a distinctive feature of China that imposes strong institutional barriers to migration. Unlike many developing countries that experienced a rapid urbanisation process, China avoided many problems as..