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Hukou, Land Tenure Rights and Chinese Rural Women
Authors: Eskelinen Pia
Editors: Halina Zawiszová, Martin Lavička
Publication year: 2023
Book title : Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
Series title: Olomouc Asian Studies
Volume: 1
First page : 133
Last page: 154
ISBN: 978-80-244-6269-1
eISBN: 978-80-244-6270-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5507/ff.23.24462691.05
Web address : http://doivup.upol.cz/artkey/doi-990005-9600_hukou_land_tenure_rights_and_chinese_rural_women.php
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/179867266
Land is a powerful asset, and it has a social function as its economic and social aspects are central in advancing gender equality. Legal control of land as well as the legal and social recognition of women’s uses of and rights to land, can provide catalytic effects of empowerment, increasing women’s influence and status in their homes and communities. The main aim of this article is to investigate and analyze the difficulties rural women face in land tenure rights when changing their hukou, which is the household registration system. During past decades, changes in the practices of the Chinese hukou legislation and land tenure rights have brought important incentives for rural developments, including farmer income and living standards. Even though both men and women face difficulties in rural areas due to the hukou system and its clashes with land rights, women are more vulnerable and more at risk of facing poverty and abuse. Women remain more likely to become landless after changing their hukou. The lack of recognition for women’s land-use rights deprives them of their chances of surviving in rural China. They become legal ghosts.
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