New generation of migrant workers fight against social discrimination

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New generation of migrant workers fight against social discrimination

16:36, February 11, 2010      

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With the coming of Spring Festival, lots of people feel something different and more inconvenient than usual: the familiar barber is going back home for Spring Festival; postmen are on vacation; restaurants can not deliver food because they are short staffed.

A Beijing citizen said: "I forgot that they are 'migrant workers', I feel like they are part of the city, and we are used to enjoying the convenience they bring to us."

These people are usually called "new generation of migrant workers", because are playing an important role in citizens' daily life not like the old generations, who were usually working hard on building sites.

Most of the new generation of migrant workers are "post-80s and 90s", and make up more than 60 percent of the150 million migrant workers in China.

They are not migrant workers, but white-collars

While decorating his house, Qin Lei, working in Beijing, changed his mind about migrant workers thanks to the new generation. "They would call and make an appointment beforehand, come with nice and clean clothes, change into their working suits, work, have lunch in small restaurants and work in the afternoon. When finishing their day's work, they also clean the house themselves, change clothes and leave. If I met them on the bus, I would never figure out they are migrant workers."

Zhang Yi, a researcher for Chinese Academy of Social Science, said most of the new migrant workers went to high-middle schools but did not do agricultural work, and they want to live in the cities."

According to him, they are paying much more attention on protection of their labor rights and have strong opinions on equality and fighting against social discrimination. They will consider working environment, social security and their career as well as salary when seeking a job. Some of them even consider themselves as whiter-collars.

The new generation of migrant workers, who were mostly born after reform and opening-up, are influenced a lot by their living conditions and city culture, so they have quite different characters, life style view with the older generations.

Most of these people are working outside carrying dreams of living better and having their own careers. But working in cities and getting into the mainstream is very different.

Lu Huilin, a sociology professor of Peking University, said the most important point for these people turning into new citizens is to change the current social system.

By People's Daily Online/China Youth
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