Rural-urban Migration Evolution from Individual to Family Migration

摘要

Peasant migration from rural to urban areas is classic labor flow in China today. Rural-urban migration has evolved from individual rural-urban migration to transitional rural-urban migration to family rural-urban migration. Rural-urban migration is the process of rational and strategic planning, decision and action, based on returns to family migration, differences in the cost of living and employment opportunities in rural and urban areas. Individual rural-urban migration is characterized as only one peasant in a rural family migrating to a city. Family rural-urban migration is characterized as rural families migrating to cities as a family unit. Finally transitional rural-urban migration is the transitional type between them. In order to gain social and economic benefits from rural family migration, urban governments adopt some appropriate measures to facilitate the process.