Community-based approaches to social exclusion among rural-to-urban migrants in China

Abstract

Rural-to-urban migrants in China face numerous forms of social exclusion. This article argues that community-based approaches offer innovative ways with which to tackle the problems of social exclusion for rural-to-urban migrants, yet these approaches have been neglected. This article first provides an overview of the concept of social exclusion, as developed by Western European scholarship and policy discourse. Next, it examines the ways in which these concepts are relevant to the context of rural-to-urban migrants within China. Finally, this article conceptualizes the social exclusion paradigm from a community practice perspective and offers the implications of this paradigm for community-level interventions.

农民工在中国面临各种形式的社会排斥。本文认为以社区为本的方式可以提供创新的方法解决农民工的社会排斥问题，但这些方法都被忽视。本文首先概述由西欧学术和政策讨论发展而成的社会排斥概念，然后审视这些概念如何与农民工的处境有关。最后，本文从社区实践的角度，概念化社会排斥范式，并提出该范式对社区层面干预措施的影响。

Keywords::

• social exclusion
• rural-to-urban migrants
• China
• community practice
• community social work