Foreword / by Michael Cernea -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Florence Padovani -- Development project-induced migration : a state mission -- Migration and development strategies in post-1949 China / Kam Wing Chan -- A gaze without a gaze : state, development, and the internally...

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...