title: Urban residentship and return migration to Shanghai in the aftermath of the cultural revolution.
abstract: "Young people were sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution and were later allowed to return home in the 1970s. This paper examines the return migration of Chinese youth from the countryside based on officially sanctioned reasons and grounds. The most often used reasons or grounds were in fact claims to urban residentship arising from connections to the city by previous residence, by birth and by family. Claimants negotiated with the state in a cultural language which rationalizes the claimed needs in terms of traditional social codes. The study reveals that the passive and submissive image the Chinese civil society outwardly present is deceptive. Their claims, however, still fall short of modern social citizenship."
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Luis
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Asia; China; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Eastern Asia; Geographic Factors; Migration; Political Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Return Migration; Settlement And Resettlement; Spatial Distribution; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization