Vörös, Z. (2014). Internal migration and ghost cities in China. Modern Geográfia, 9(4), 39–50.
The study analyses the internal migration, focusing on the causes, characteristics and consequences of the doubtful situation of about 150-200 million migrants. Labor migration is closely linked to significant disparities in wages between the urban and rural sectors and between regions in China. The lack of jobs in the countryside in many agricultural provinces is the main reason why rural workers have left the countryside. Therefore, the choice for rural migrant workers is largely narrowed to no job at home or a job at low wages in the cities. Rural migrant workers move across counties or even provinces to find a job, most of them go to nearby towns outside the villages or even further to big cities on the coast. We are going to discuss the situation of the so called Ghost Cities as well, which were built in order to further boost the economy – beside the possible need for houses of the migrants.
Keywords: China, internal migration, Ghost Cities