Newsletter 2: October 2008
Migration and Social Protection

Seminar on Population Floating and Urban Life Adaptation

With the ongoing urbanization in China, population floating has become an enduring research subject in social sciences. Spatially, the floating population is mostly concentrated in large coastal cities, where they work, live, witness the growth and prosperity of the cities, share the achievements of modern civilization, and experience the hardships of existence away from home. Meanwhile, thanks to the floating population, the cities have been equipped with new abilities, new orders and new values. Adapting to high mobility has become a new necessity for urban social management in our time. With a view to serving as a platform for the latest research achievements in this field, and to exploring the interactive relation between the floating population and cites, the Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, ECNU, is planning to hold the Seminar on Population Floating and Urban Life Adaptation in Shanghai in December, 2008, in cooperation with related academic institutes.

Seminar Dates: Friday, December 12 - Saturday, December 13, 2008

Seminar Location：East China Normal University，Shanghai

Co-Organizers：The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, ECNU
Population Research Institute, ECNU
The Population Geography Committee, GSC
The Geographical Society of Shanghai

Operating Unit：The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, ECNU
Topics：

1. New Trends and Problems of Population Floating and Urbanization in China
2. Behavior Patterns of Contemporary Urban Floating Population
3. Urban Inclusion and Social Protection of Immigrants and Their Offspring
4. Dialectics of Urban Dynamics and Urban Pressure of Floating Population
5. Urban Social Administration Under the Circumstances of High Mobility
6. Reform on Household Registration System and Innovation of Urban Population Administrative System
7. Population Floating and Overall Development of Cities and Rural Areas

Paper Submission:

1. The applicants need to submit a paper and abstract to jyu@mail.ecnu.edu.cnas attachments.
2. The abstract needs to be submitted before October 31, 2008. It should include the title, name of author, work place, contacts, abstract, key words, in MS Word format.
3. The paper needs to be submitted to jyu@mail.ecnu.edu.cn as attachments before November 28, 2008, including the title, name of author, work place, abstract, key words, full text and references, in MS Word format.
4. The organizing committee will screen the papers and invite the applicants who pass the screening to participate in the seminar as official delegates.
5. The organizing committee will have a paper collection printed before the seminar. The paper collection is to be published after the seminar with permission of the authors.