新生代农民工消费研究述评

A Review of Consumption Research of the New-Generation Migrant Workers

通过与老一代农民工的比较,在"再生产"视角下从个人、性别、家庭和制度安排4个方面,评述了新生代农民工消费的相关研究。研究发现,"空间隔离"使新生代农民工的消费呈现复杂性;他们保持节俭并尽量汇款回家以维持与家庭相关的社会关系再生产,另一方面又追求城市消费方式以融入城市,通过消费重造主体性;家庭消费转移至城市以及打破集体消费领域的制度性歧视有利于其融入城市。研究指出,应将其视为"完整的人",关注其家庭消费,同时结合生产和制度安排来考量消费。

Based on the comparison between old-generation and new-generation migrant workers,the paper reviews the corresponding research pertaining to the consumption of new-generation migrant workers from the perspective of individual,character,family and institutional arrangement.It is found that spatial segregation makes their consumption be complicated.On the one hand,they keep frugal and try to remit money to their families so as to sustain family-related reproduction of social relationship.On the other hand,they pursuit urban consumption pattern to integrate into the city life and recreate subjectivity by means of consumption.It is pointed out that transferring the family consumption to city and breaking the institutional discriminaion in the system of collective consumption contribute to their intergration into city.The paper then maintains that the new-generation migrant workers should be regarded as integrated persons and their family consumption combining with production and institutional arrangement should be paid close attention to.