Migrants, Landlords and their Uneven Experiences of the Beijing Olympic Games

Bingqin Li and Hyun Bang Shin

CASE Papers from Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE

Abstract: Hosting of mega-events such as the Olympic Games tends to be accompanied by voluminous media coverage on the negative social impact of the Games, and the people in the affected areas are often considered to be one victim group sharing similar experiences. The research in this paper tries to unpack the heterogeneous groups in a particular sector of the housing market, and gain a better understanding of how the Olympic Games affects different resident groups. We take the example of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games and resort to empirical findings in an attempt to critically examine the experience of migrant tenants and Beijing citizens (landlords in particular) in 'villages-in-the-city' (known as cheongzhongcun) by delivering their own first-hand accounts of city-wide preparation for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympiad and the pervasive demolition threats to their neighbourhoods. The paper argues that the Beijing Summer Olympiad produced uneven, often exclusionary, Games experiences for a certain segment of urban population.

Keywords: Beijing; Olympic Games; housing; marginality; patriotism; exclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I31 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-07
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