ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to the growing scholarship on migrants social protection in China and health issues through a livelihoods analysis. It extends the traditional focus of the livelihood approach at the security and sustainability of mobile livelihoods, negotiations, struggles surrounding livelihoods of rural migrants, urban experiences against a complex backdrop of dramatic socioeconomic and political change in China's cities. Migration, health and livelihood security and sustainability, as related to social rights and citizenship, constitute a set of complex and multifaceted issues, and research on the evolution and development of China's social policy and welfare schemes. It also focuses on work-related safety and occupational health and examines the major health hazards for migrants, and the healthcare problems that people face in urban settings. The chapter also argues the social welfare of the mobile population essentially a matter of equity and social justice, and points to an urgent need to address more effectively the issues identified.
