Property Rights Redistribution, Entitlement Failure and the Impoverishment of Landless Farmers in China

Shenjing He, Yuting Liu, Chris Webster and Fulong Wu
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Shenjing He: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China, shenjing.he@gmail.com
Yuting Liu: School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, ytliu@scut.edu.cn
Chris Webster: School of City and Regional Planning, University of Cardiff, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA, UK, webster@cardiff.ac.uk
Fulong Wu: School of City and Regional Planning, University of Cardiff, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA, UK, WuF@cardiff.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2009, vol. 46, issue 9, 1925-1949

Abstract: Within the process of urban expansion through land requisition in China, farmers' de facto rights to collective land, including farmland and housing plots ( zhaijidi ), are forcibly acquired by the state and thereafter redistributed to private developers, to facilitate urban-based economic growth. Deprived of a secure livelihood, some landless farmers become trapped in poverty. Others find that the property rights restructuring in urbanised villages gives them an opportunity to earn rental income. However, the opportunities are not equally distributed and the processes are, in general, stacked against the interests of villagers. This paper analyses the impoverishment of farmers caught up in China's relentless urban expansion programme, using the perspectives of property rights and entitlements. It presents case studies of two villages in Xi'an to illustrate how farmers' entitlement sets and vulnerability to poverty have changed as a result of changes in land rights.

Date: 2009
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