China's Citizenship Challenge: Labour Ngos and the Struggle for Migrant Workers' Rights

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China's Citizenship Challenge is a valuable contribution into the field of labour movement studies, framing labour NGOs' activism as centred on contestation of migrant workers' citizenship in China. It shows that while NGOs' activism revolves around the broad areas of civic organising, labour and urban space, it ultimately rests upon engagement with the wider citizenship regime in China.

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'In her superb book, Jakimw draws on in-depth fieldwork to provide rich new insights into NGOs in China run by migrant workers for migrant workers. Her analysis expands conceptual understandings of citizenship beyond administrative and legal categories to explore a plethora of informal practices used by subaltern people, which have hitherto received little attention, especially in research on China. Her book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand state-society relations, citizenship, and migrant workers claims to the city in Xis China.'
Rachel Murphy, Professor of Chinese Development and Society, University of Oxford

'Migrant workers are the most important actors pushing for change in Chinas citizenship institutions. Chinas citizenship challenge vividly exposes how migrant workers push for such change through their NGOs' grassroots activism. The book's novelty lays particularly in its focus on migrant workers acts rather than their hukou status, making it a major contribution to citizenship studies.'
Zhonghua Guo, Professor of Political Science, Sun Yat-Sen University

'By shifting the dominant focus from hukou to suzhi, Jakimw provides a new perspective on struggles for citizenship in China. Jakimw shows that rather than leaving it to the government to define the stage on which to perform citizenship, activist citizens are creating it themselves on which to perform a different kind of citizenship.'
Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London

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Malgorzata Jakimw is Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics at the University of Durham