In June 2019, Elena Meyer-Clement was invited as a panelist at the IAMO Forum 2019 at Halle (Saale), Germany. The topic of the panel discussion was “Current challenges and way forward for Chinese agriculture after 40 years of rural reform”. In this multidisciplinary panel, Elena presented her thoughts on the role of urbanization and the concentration of rural housing space in China’s ongoing “rural revitalization strategy”.
Elena Meyer-Clement and Wang Xiang made a presentation titled “Political steering of urban citizenship: China’s migration policy for internal migrants and foreign immigrants” on the workshop on “East Asian Migration Governance in Comparative Perspective: Norm diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship”. The workshop is organized by the Einstein Visiting Fellow Project led by Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert and it took place at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin on October 12-13.
Elena and Xiang’s paper examined the changes in China’s internal migration and immigration policy since Xi Jinping’s administration. They argue that China’s new approach to governing migration is still in the making, but recent policy changes point to further adaptation of China’s approach to international trends of migrant selection, namely attraction of high-skilled labor and rejection of low-skilled labor. The paper is set for publication in the edited volume associated with the workshop.
