ABSTRACT
These negative attitudes and behaviors, unsurprisingly, may trigger migrant workers’ aversion of urban residents, and such attitudes may also influence the formulation and execution of related policies and institutions that affect migrants. Although the needs, wishes, attitudes, and ideas of ordinary people are generally not brought into the Chinese political process, these factors will nonetheless appear in policies, often in support of existing institutions and to the detriment of reform (Liu 2008). Therefore, studying the attitudes held by urban residents toward migrant workers, reducing their biases and discriminatory behavior, and promoting productive interaction between the two groups is helpful for migrant workers to integrate into the city. With this in mind, the aim of this research is to discover the attitudes and opinions urban residents have regarding migrant workers, and to explore the causes behind those attitudes and opinions.
