Taking Root Far from Home: Land Transactions and Home-Building among the Miao Contract Farmers of Yangjiang

Wen Shixian (温士贤)

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Chapter 4 Taking Root Far from Home: Land Transactions and Home-Building among the Miao Contract Farmers of Yangjiang

In: Ethnic Minorities in Socialist China: Development, Migration, Culture, and Identity

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Wen Shixian (温士贤)

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Pages:: 99–128

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004515192_006

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In traditional agrarian societies, the village is a stable human community. In order to monopolize village resources, members of the village strictly prohibit the settlement of outsiders. In China in the 1980s and the 1990s, the purchasing of a large portion of the grain yield on a requisition basis by the state made land, which is the primary resource for survival, a burden for farmers, and those villages that had abundant land but a shortage of labor had to recruit immigrant farmers to mitigate production pressures. In such a context, the Miao people from the mountainous areas of Yunnan began to immigrate to Yangjiang Municipality in Guangdong to help farm the land. They would settle in the area by obtaining the right of cultivation, and by purchasing land and old houses. This chapter argues that settlement rights in village communities have become tradable commodities under the combined influence of urbanization and the current land policy in China, providing opportunities for migrant groups to settle in places far away from their native places. In Yangjiang, the migrant Miao contract farmers from Yunnan are not passive actors acting in response to survival pressures, instead they have been able to reconstruct their social networks and living spaces in the process of resettlement.

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Ethnic Minorities in Socialist China: Development, Migration, Culture, and Identity

Series: Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China, Volume: 6

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004515192

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 14 Apr 2022

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