This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs.

Introduction: China's Urban Marginalization in Comparative Perspectives; F.Wu & C.Webster PART I: CONCEPT AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF MARGINALIZATION Urban Inequality: Its Definition, Measurement, Causes and Importance; C.Hamnett Neoliberalism and the Urban Poor: A View from Latin America; A.Gilbert PART II: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND MARGINALIZATION IN CHINA Entitlement to the Benefits of Urbanisation: Comparing Migrant and Peri-Urban 'Peasants'; C.Webster & Y.Zhao Property Rights, Citizenship and the Making of the New Poor in Urban China; F.Wu The Strength of Property Rights, Prospects for the Disadvantaged, and Constraints on the Actions of the Politically Powerful in Hong Kong and China; A.Smart Empowerment or Marginalization: Land, Housing and Property Rights in Poor Neighbourhoods; H.B.Shin PART III: RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AND MARGINALIZATION Rural-Urban Migration in China: Scale, Composition, Pattern and Deprivation; A.Hussain & Y.Wang Private Rental Housing in 'Urban Villages' in Shenzhen: Problems or Solutions?; Y.P.Wang, Y.Wang & J. Wu Chinese Urban Villages as Marginalized Neighbourhoods under Rapid Urbanization; Y.Liu & S.He PART IV: DEPRIVATION AND SEGREGATION Multiple Deprivation in Urban China: An Analysis of Individual Survey Data; Y.Yuan & F.Wu Post-Reform Residential Segregation in Three Chinese Cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou; Z.Li & F.Wu PART V: STATE ACTION The Urban Dibao: Guarantee for Minimum Livelihood or for Minimal Turmoil?; D.J.Solinger State Funded Reemployment Training and Participation of Informal Employment in Tianjin; B.Li & H.Peng What has been Marginalized? Marginalization as the Constrained 'Right to the City' in Urban China; F.Wu & C.Webster