Urban Migration and Public Governance in China - A Case Study of Shanghai

This book, focusing on urban migration and public governance, reviews on the concepts and theories of urban migration and urban governance across the globe and sums up world migration trends and policy changes, coupled with the characteristics and types of China's urban migration. What differs this book from other books is that it probes into the main factors and mechanisms influencing urban migration and inclusion, and that it adopts Shanghai as a sample and capitalizes on Shanghai's urban migration data to verify the subjective and objective reasons affecting urban migrants' inclusion. Moreover, this book takes a further step to conduct a theoretical reflection from the perspectives of population migration and migration policies and explores current dilemmas facing China in terms of urban migration management and possible ways to make a difference. In the final part, this book puts forward some theory-based and practicable countermeasures to transform urban migration governance in China.



Shangguang Yang is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute of Economic Development, School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology. He has both presided over and participated in a wide range of domestic and international research projects, including China's National Natural Science Foundation Projects, China's National Social Science Foundation Projects, China's Ministry of Education Foundation Projects, Shanghai Municipal Government Decision-making Consultation Projects, Shanghai Soft Science Foundation Projects, and International Cooperation Foundation Projects with Japan and Australia. As to academic writing, he has authored and co-authored 10 books in English and Chinese and has more than 70 papers published in first-class academic journals at home and abroad, such as Cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, Population Space and Place, Urban Planning Forum, China Soft Science, World Economic Papers, and Journal of Public Management. Prolific and proficient in research and teaching, he was awarded the Second Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences by China's Ministry of Education and the First Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences by Shanghai Municipality.
Danyang Wang, Phd in Economics, is a Lecturer at the School of Insurance, Shandong University of Finance and Economics. Her research interests primarily focus on urban and regional economics and she has published papers in Cities, Healthcare, BMC public health.