From Somewhere to Nowhere. China's Internal Migrant Workers
Description
High-density population centers of enormous size are springing up in China with dizzying speed, and with them comes an increased demand for migrant workers in construction, manufacturing, and mining. Through still images by Andreas Seibert and documentary footage by Villi Hermann, this program travels throughout China to vividly capture the experiences of these mingong, tens of millions on the move from the countryside to the cities in the too-often misplaced hope of building a better life for themselves and their families. An intriguing angle on urbanization fueled by explosive economic growth-and a moving composite portrait of laborers who typically toil in obscurity.
Runtime
86 min
Subjects
- Human geography (324)
- Cultural geography (235)
- Social change (532)
- Urban geography (61)
- Social ecology (250)
- Urbanization (175)
- Population policy (78)
- Human ecology (350)
- Rural-urban migration (144)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2010], c2009
Database
Films on Demand
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