乡村“老漂族”的流动机理与生存图景

Rural Old Drifters' Flowing Mechanism and Survival Picture

"老漂族"是一种特殊类型的流动人口,专指以帮衬子女特别是照顾孙辈为主要目的,从自己生活的农村来到子女工作和生活的城市的准老年人和老年人群体。"老漂族"是一个具有较强异质性的群体,根据不同的标准可以进行不同的分类。通过对江苏省H市X社区18位"老漂族"的深入访谈发现,"老漂族"的流动是在工业社会传统家庭性别分工消弭的时代背景下,子代的需求和父代的回应两种力量共同作用的结果,它以一种"父代投奔子代"的独特方式重塑了转型期中国的代际关系,"老漂族"生存状态也因此呈现出一幅喜忧交加的另类图景。随着"老漂族"群体的发展壮大,这一群体未来的去向问题应当引起社会的关注。

＂The Old Drifters＂is a special type of floating population,specifically refers to the elderly and quasi elderly from their rural home to the city of their children working and living mainly in order to help their children to take care of the grandchildren.＂The Old Drifters＂is a group with strong heterogeneity,and it can be classified according to different standards.Through in-depth interviews of 18 ＂Old Drifters＂in X community of H city in Jiangsu province,we find that＂The Old Drifters＂come from the interaction of two forces including the needs of filial generation and the response of father generation in the background of traditional division of family gender roles disappeared in the industrial society,reshaping the Chinese intergenerational relations in the transition period by a unique way of＂the parent to offspring＂,so the survival state of＂The Old Drifters＂shows an uncommon picture of both happiness and worry.With the development and expansion of＂The Old Drifters＂,the future whereabouts of this group should arouse the attention and foresight of the whole society.