China has an estimated 120-150 million internal migrants from the countryside living in its cities. This volume examines the key issues involved in establishing social protection for them, including a critical examination of deficiencies in arrangements and a study of proposals that have been offered for extending social security coverage.

Establishing Social Security for China?s Migrant Workers: Problems and Prospects; Labor Market Integration and Social Protection: Labor and Social Security Reform for Migrant Workers; The Design of Social Security for Migrant Workers: Moving Toward an Integrated Labor Market; Employment and Social Security of Rural Migrants in Chinese Cities; Migrant Participation in Social Security Schemes: Treatment of the Rural Migrant Population as Citizens and Social Justice; Which Migrants Want to Join Urban Social Security Schemes?; Why Do Migrant Workers Not Participate in Urban Social Security Schemes?; A Comparative Study of the Social Protection Access of Rural-Urban Migrants and the Urban Poor; Migrant Workers in Shanghai: Social Protection Issues and Options; Migrant Alternatives to State-Sponsored Social Protection: The Household as Security: Strategies of Rural-Urban Migrants in China; Getting by Without State-Sponsored Social Insurance; Migrant Housing and Migrant Welfare.