Discrimination against rural-to-urban migrants: the role of the hukou system in China.

ABSTRACT: China's rural-urban dual society system is instituted by its unique hukou system. This system causes inequalities in social status between permanent urban and rural residents, and discrimination against rural-to-urban migrants is thus prevalent. A series of studies, based on system justification theory, sought to address the impact of the hukou system on the discrimination against rural-to-urban migrants. Study 1 showed that the justification of the hukou system could predict discrimination operationalized using a social distance measure. Study 2 found that priming of the proposed abolishment of the current hukou system led to reduced social distance. Study 3, using a recruiting scenario, further demonstrated that priming of the proposed abolishment of the system led to reduced discriminat

SUBMITTER: Kuang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3489849 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature