Family Reproduction of the New Generation of Migrant Workers and Rural Development—An Urban-rural Multi-site Research based on Receiving and Sending Sites
After the new generation of migrant workers"leaving the soil and leaving the village",their family reproduction arrangements have a profound impact on rural development.Using the urban-rural multi-site research based on receiving and sending sites,this article finds that due to urban exclusion,the new generation of migrant workers embed family reproduction into rural society,forming left-behind fami-lies with close intergenerational ties,and promoting rural development by expanding the economic produc-tion of left-behind families and building rural houses.However,in recent years,urbanization in counties where migrant workers are sent has provided new space for family reproduction.A large part of the new generation of migrant workers has moved family reproduction upwards,withdrawning the family labor force and family economic resources from the countryside.This has resulted in serious rural hollowing out,such as a sharp reduction in the size of left-behind families,shrinking family economies,and stagnant housing construction.At the same time,a large number of older single male workers of the new generation fell into incomplete family reproduction due to the difficulty in forming a family.They gradually alienate them-selves from the left-behind families and are unwilling to participate in left-behind family management and house construction.As a result,these left-behind families face rural development difficulties such as farmland abandonment,dilapidated houses,and care crises.The study helps to revise the linear change perspective of rural hollowing caused by the new generation of migrant workers"leaving the soil and leav-ing the village",and highlights the importance of family reproduction analysis in understanding its com-plex relationship with rural development.
The new generation of migrant workersRural developmentFamily reproductionCounty urbanization
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