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China’s frustrated migrant workers rise up

BEIJING, July 3, 2011 (AFP) - Migrant worker Yue Yaowei has lived in Beijing for six years but is not recognised as a resident of the Chinese capital -- and so cannot get health insurance, buy a car or purchase a house.

"I am under big pressure here," Yue, 24, told AFP at a duck restaurant in central Beijing where he earns about 0 a month as the head waiter.
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"I don't have much savings after buying clothes, gifts for my family and going out with friends."

Yue is one of tens of millions of migrant workers around the country tied to a residency registration in their home town which largely prevents them from accessing a range of public services once they move to other cities.

The so-called "hukou" system -- which the government has vowed to reform -- was introduced in the 1950s to curb potentially destabilising population flows from the countryside to the cities, in a nation recovering from civil war.


It has fuelled resentment among migrants, as has widespread discrimination against the army of low-paid workers, sometimes spilling over into violent unrest.

Unlike their parents, young migrant workers -- the second generation -- are more aware of their rights, and are increasingly frustrat

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