Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.
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- Includes bibliographical references
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- 305.0951
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- 22
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- 9780776607092 9780776617800
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- HN733.5
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- C66 2009eb
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- 1 electronic text (xvi, 421 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- List of Contributors 9
- Editors'Note 16
- Acknowledgements 17
- Introduction 18
- PART ONE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RURAL AND MIGRANT WORKERS 32
- Chapter One: Prosperity at the Expense of Equality: Migrant Workers are Falling Behind in Urban Chinas Rise 33
- Chapter Two: The Historical Causes of Chinas Dual Social Structure 47
- Chapter Three: Restoring Private Ownership of Rural Lands to Safeguard the Basic Rights of Farmers 87
- Chapter Four: Changing the Policy Paradigm on Chinese Migrant Workers: Towards Balanced Urban and Rural Development, People-Orientation, Equal Treatment and Consultative Management 116
- Chapter Five: Chinese Farmers' Right of Access to Judicial Relief: An Investigative Report into Forest Land Expropriation Claims by Hebei Farmer Wen Shengcun 146
- Chapter Six: Chinas War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province 166
- PART TWO: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN 202
- Chapter Seven: The Gendered Reality of Migrant Workers in Globalizing China 203
- Chapter Eight: An Analysis of Rural Women's Entitlements to Land and Other Property 225
- Chapter Nine: Systemic Discrimination and Gender Inequality: A Life Cycle Approach to Girls' and Women's Rights 249
- PART THREE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE DISABLED 262
- Chapter Ten: A Study of the Legislative Inhibition of Discrimination on the Basis of Disability 263
- PART FOUR: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THOSE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS 292
- Chapter Eleven: The Application of International and Regional Instruments to HIV-Related Discrimination in China and Southeast Asia 293
- Chapter Twelve: Gender and HIV/AIDS: Understanding and Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Among Women and Girls 309
- Chapter Thirteen: Promoting the Right to Education for AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): A Study on Anti-Discrimination 329
- Chapter Fourteen: The State of Life and Survival Strategies of AIDS-Infected Rural Women: An Analysis Based on Field Investigations in Selected Areas of Henan 379
- PART FIVE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITIES 412
- Chapter Fifteen: The Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Global Template for Minority Rights? 413
- Chapter Sixteen: Indigenous Peoples and Hunting Rights 422
