摘要
Globalization accelerates the speed of migration in the world and challenges the traditional citizenship based on nation-state. Similarly, China has been undergoing a huge movement of domestic migration, more than 200 million farmers moving into cities and towns from the countryside, under the impact of modernization and globalization; this creates a great challenge to its traditional citizenship. The paper includes five parts and will： 1 ） give an overview of the whole process of this huge migration since the Reform and Opening Up at the end of the 1970s ; 2 ） analyze the internal and international dynamics of migration and particularly its great challenges to citizens＇ civil rights, obhgation, and identity; 3 ） illustrate Chinese policies dealing with the new large migration; 4, ） assess the essential changes in citizenship from this migration; and 5 ） find its meaning and consequence in terms of political philosophy.
