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Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Office Building The Congressional-Executive Commission on China held another in its series of staff-led Issues Roundtables, entitled "China's Household Registration (Hukou) System: Discrimination and Reform" on Friday, September 2, from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Office Building. China¡¯s hukou (household registration) system has imposed strict limits on ordinary Chinese citizens changing their permanent place of residence since it was instituted in the 1950s. Beginning with the reform period in the late 1970s and accelerating during the late 1990s, economic privatization and government reforms weakened hukou limits on internal migration. Up to 150 million rural residents have since migrated to Chinese cities for work in one of the largest migrations in human history. Despite reforms to the hukou system, restrictions continue to affect the lives of Chinese migrants. Employment, housing, and social benefits are commonly linked to hukou identification. Rural migrants to urban areas are often unable to obtain equal access to public services such as health care and education. Continued hukou restrictions may be fueling the emergence of an excluded migrant population in China¡¯s urban areas. This Roundtable examined the role of the hukou system in Chinese society, its impact on Chinese migrants, and the effect of recent reforms. The panelists: Fei-Ling Wang, Professor, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Wang teaches international political economy, world politics, and the studies of East Asia and China. He has published four books, two co-edited volumes, and over 50 journal articles, book chapters, and monographs in five languages. His most recent book is Organizing through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System (Stanford University Press, 2005). He holds a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), guest-lectured at 15 other universities in several countries, and held visiting and adjunct positions in four universities in China, Japan, and Singapore. He has appeared in many media outlets and had numerous grants including, most recently, a Lecturership from the Fulbright Commission and an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. Chlo¨¦ Froissart, PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science of Paris, affiliated to the Center for International Studies and Research, Paris; Research Fellow at the French Center for Research on Contemporary China, Hong Kong. Chlo¨¦ Froissart is an expert on Chinese political issues with particular focus on internal migration, the development of civil society and NGOs in China, as well as history of political ideas. Her dissertation examines the development of social movements among migrant workers and the citizenship of migrant workers in China, namely their evolving relationship with labor laws, access to education and social security. Her publications include the translation of The Tian¡¯anmen Papers (Andrew Nathan and Perry Link eds.) into French and ¡°The Hazards of the Right to an Education, A Study of the Schooling of Migrant Children in Chengdu¡± in Perspectives Chinoises. She has worked as a consultant for the UNESCO program ¡°Urban Poverty Alleviation among Young Migrants in China¡± and has undertaken voluntary work for Human Rights in China, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and the French NGO Solidarit¨¦ Chine. She has been regularly interviewed about Chinese issues by French and international media. Witness Statements: Transcript: China's Household Registration (Hukou) System: Discrimination and Reform (Text/PDF) Additional information on this topic can be found on the CECC Freedom of Residence and Travel page. **************** |
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