RUMiCI
The Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia project was established to investigate the impacts of internal migration within China and Indonesia. In particular, the investigation is focused on the collection of data through five year longitudinal surveys in China and Indonesia and the use of these data to answer questions with relation to migration's impact on income mobility, poverty alleviation, education, health and nutrition of migrant children, and the assimilation of migrant workers into the city.
Up to date, we have completed three waves of the surveys both in China and in Indonesia. The findings and issues were discussed and disseminated in the two RUMiCI Conferences, the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia: Trends and Lessons 2008; and Crisis and Socio-Economic Dynamics 2009. The survey results have been analysed and the papers were published in May 2010 by Edward Elgar Publishing, UK in a book entitled "The Great Migration".
We are currently carrying out the fourth wave of the surveys, which will be completed in both countries in 2011. This year the first-wave RUMiCI China data (2008) will be made available to the public as planned. The second wave data (2009) will go public in 2012 and so on so fourth for the third and forth waves in 2013 and 2014.
As research findings are made complete they will be published in the relevant sections of this website. However, for more information about our project, please go to our ARC Funding Application.
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