ISBN:
9780765610232
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (200 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
East Gate Book
Parallel Title:
Print version China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies
DDC:
304.8/089/00951
Keywords:
Migration, Internal -- China -- Case studies..
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Minorities -- China -- Case studies
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Migration, Internal ; China ; Case studies
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Minorities ; China ; Case studies
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Abstract:
The movement of Han Chinese into minority regions has been a long-standing pattern in China. However, China's minorities have taken longer to start moving in significant numbers and have now become part of a social change phenomenon, motivated by economic, social, and political factors. This book looks at how current changes in China are affecting the minority population. The case studies focus on how population shifts and the movement of China's minorities impact such issues as education, ethnic identity, the environment, local economy, labor, and regional development. Han-minority interactio
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction; 1 Overview of Minority Migration; 2. Minority Movement and Education; II. Inner Mongolia; 3. Contemporary Mongolian Population Distribution, Migration, Cultural Change, and Identity; 4. Ethnic Groups in Hohhot: Migration, Settlement, and Intergroup Exchanges; III. Xinjiang; 5. Impacts of Migration to Xinjiang Since the 1950s; 6. Population Distribution and Relations Among Ethnic Groups in the Kashgar Region, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Uyghur Movement Within Xinjiang and Its Ethnic Identity and Cultural ImplicationsIV. Contexts and Patterns of Migration; 8. Ethnic Minority Labor Out-migrants from Guizhou Province and Their Impacts on Sending Areas; 9. Socioeconomic pacts of Uyghur Movement to Beijing; The Editors and Contributors; Index
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