{"480221":{"#nid":"480221","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can China Keep Its New Promise to City Migrants?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECityLab\u0027s \u201cCan China Keep Its New Promise to City Migrants? \u201dquoted Nunn School Professor Fei-Ling Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChina is currently home to the largest migration in human history, with hundreds of millions of people moving from rural areas into cities in search of a better life. That \u201cbetter\u201d life, however, has proven hard to grasp\u2014especially when a lack of residency status in those cities means migrants can\u2019t access public services like health care and education. But the government\u2019s latest move may finally provide some relief to the more than 250 million migrants across the country\u2026 The new policy is a compromise between migrants and permanent residents, who have pushed back in the past on sharing their city\u2019s resources with \u201coutsiders,\u201d says Fei-Ling Wang, an expert on the history of China\u2019s hukou system at the \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u201cEssentially, it\u2019s a fairness issue,\u201d he tells CityLab. \u201cThose \u2018outsiders\u2019 are actually the wealth creators for cities. They work very hard and put in a lot of effort and they don\u0027t take much.\u201d In that sense, he adds, they live much like undocumented immigrants in the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2015-12-18 13:13:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:52","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/housing\/2015\/12\/can-china-keep-its-new-promise-to-city-migrants\/420672\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"481901":{"id":"481901","type":"image","title":"Fei Ling Wang","body":null,"created":"1452024000","gmt_created":"2016-01-05 20:00:00","changed":"1539024099","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:41:39","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Fei-Ling Wang","file":{"fid":"205814","name":"10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37876,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg?itok=71t6Q68a"}}},"media_ids":["481901"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"12187","name":"Fei-Ling Wang"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}