ABSTRACT
This chapter explains an important but much overlooked issue in rural-urban migration in China, that is, health and its relationship to sustainable livelihoods of rural migrants and their families. It identifies missing links between the core notions of our conception of livelihood, its diversification strategies and its components from a health and well-being perspective. The chapter draws the attention of academic and policy domains to the issues raised, as well as to provoke critical thinking and reflection on China's predominant ideologies governing development agendas and practices, and their impact on achieving the broader human development goals of equity, sustainability and well-being. It explores the possibility of building a linkage between migration, health, sustainability and livelihoods and of conceptualising ways in which the livelihood framework can be strengthened to enable us to broaden our interrogation and investigate these challenging issues in connection with institutional arrangements and power relations.
