Why Farmers in J City Refuse to Be Citizens: Security economics of suburban farmers

Suburban farmers don' t always welcome the project of “ dismantling villages and setting up urban communities” carried out by local governments.The phenomenon is usually explained as the local governmentsfailure to satisfy the minimum economic requirements of suburban farmers.The author takes the revised theory of “ safety goes first” put forward by J .Scott, picking out some suburban villages in J city , Zhejiang province , the case study shows that the reason of the resistance of suburban farmersis the sense of insecurity.In other words, in the process of urbanization prompted by the government , the original security conditions are easily damaged , but this problem has not been taken seriously , not to mention establish the substitutesfor satisfying farmers' safety requirements .In their daily lives, farmers tend to have a sense of high risk and insecurity during the transformation, including the economic insecurity , social insecurity and political insecurity , etc.

毛丹；王燕锋；

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