Ecological Migration and Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Ningxia

This book assesses Ecological Migration and Precision Poverty Alleviation Measures, based on research conducted in Ningxia. Resettling residents currently living in poor areas is an important measure for precise poverty alleviation. China's central government has provided extraordinary support for these areas, so as to help with removing poverty nests, changing poverty industries, and pulling out the roots of poverty.This book is mainly based on research conducted in Ningxia, one of the earliest areas in China to achieve poverty alleviation and development through immigration and relocation. Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, Ningxia's ecological migration has been integrated into the process of new urbanization and industrialization. Poverty alleviation and relocation not only involves regional transfer, industrial transformation, and changes in livelihood, but also the social adaptation and integration of migrant groups. In addition to examining these aspects, the book shares stories of how impoverished individuals have succeeded in changing their fates.

Provides detailed information on poverty alleviation in Ningxia, including the way migrants were settled Illustrates policy innovations implemented by the Ningxia government over the course of emigration and settlement Reviews problems and difficulties entailed by emigrations, e.g., lack of productive resources and reduced labor forces

Autorentext

Xiaoyi Wang is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has been engaged in rural development, anti-poverty, and environmental issues for 30 years. He has published many research works, for example, Grassland Community under Environmental Pressure, and he has translated and introduced a large number of foreign related studies, such as James Scott's Art of Escaping Rule, National Perspective, and Unbalanced, Common and Land. Apart from traditional academic research, he participated in rural development practices and carried out community-participatory environmental protection and sustainable development activities in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and other places.

Inhalt
An Overview of the Socio-economic Situation of Ecological Migrants in Ningxia.- Immigrants' Life Adaptability and Satisfaction.- Production and living conditions of immigrants.- Analysis of "Low Settlement Rate" in Ecological Immigrant Community of Ningxia.- Social adaptation of ecological immigrants in Ningxia.- Social Integration of Ecological Migrants in Ningxia.- Research on Innovation of Old-age Security for Ecological Migrants in Ningxia.- Industrial Development and Poverty of Ecological Migrants.- Non-agricultural Employment, Labor Dispatch and Informal Labor.- Historical Investigation of Immigrants in Ningxia and Comparison between China and Foreign Countries.- Ecological Migration and Social Governance.- Social Governance of Spontaneous Migrants.