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Hukou System Influencing the Structural, Institutional Inequalities in China: The Multifaceted Disadvantages Rural Hukou Holders Face

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Abstract

Abstract: To facilitate industralisation and, hence, urban economic growth from the mid-20 century, China has been undergoing entrenched rural-urban divide economically, socially, institutionally and otherwise. In this paper, the author would outline how the Central Government of China has created the structural, institutional inequalities between rural and urban regions. The author would holistically discuss how rural Chinese communities are vertically inherited fewer resources to improve their social positions, leading to intergenerational reproduction of social, economic, educational, institutional, political, cultural and linguistic inequalities.

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social inequality, social stratification, social mobility, social reproduction, economic capital, social capital, cultural capital, political capital, China, migration, labour migration

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Social Sciences

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Journal ISSN

2076-0760
2076-0760

Volume Title

11

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MDPI AG