Problems of new generation migrant workers from the perspective of social discrimination

This paper studies the correlation of migrant workers in China and their social problems from the aspects of “migrant workers and social discrimination” and “new generation and mobility of social class”. The paper also examines the issue focusing on the gender structure of new generation migrant workers (NEMWs).

The document indicates that NEMWs account for 10% of the total population of the whole country. Findings include:

• comparing with the first generation migrant workers (FEMWs), the problems of the NEMW are more complicated and the social problems are more profound
• the social living conditions of the NEMW have not been improved comparing with the FEMWs
• as a social class, the NEMWs have already located at the lowest position of the society, so there is no space for them to move to the down position
• while the gender structure of FEMWs reflects “male outside and female inside”, the gender structure of NEMWs is conversing the traditional psychological recognition of their parent generation
• the gender plight in the cause of career is the developmental problem faced by new generation female workers
  

The author thinks that in terms of NEMWs, there is still room for improving the whole national quality, yet the migrant workers should appeal to the Chinese social environment from the following aspects:

• it is not only the system problem but also the culture problem for the migrant workers which motivated the social discrimination
• the plights confronted by the NEMWs relate to the complicated social problems concerning the urban and rural differences, registration system, educational system, and widening divide between the rich and the poor
• understanding and smooth of the social plight of NEMWs are the objective requirement of Chinese fine culture, and it is testing the wisdom of Chinese society