China's Floating Citizens

China has an estimated 150 million migrant workers living and working in its major cities, 120 million of whom are second generation citizens in the cities from rural areas, according to Wang Chunguang, a researcher with the Sociology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Although these second or new generation workers do work unrelated to farming, their residence cards still read “farming” under profession. And their growing dilemma is that while they see no future for themselves as farmers in the countryside, the cities can hardly be called home either.