星期四 [ 2010-7-29 21:58:32 | watches2009 ]   Beijing's migrants sealed off BEIJING - The government calls it "sealed management." China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control. It's Beijing's latest effort to reduce rising crime often blamed on the millions of rural Chinese migrating to cities for work. The capital's Communist Party secretary wants the approach promoted citywide. But some state media and experts say the move not only looks bad but imposes another layer of control on the already stigmatized, vulnerable migrants. So far, gates have sealed Christian Louboutin boots off 16 villages in the sprawling southern suburbs, where migrants are attracted to cheaper rents and in some villages outnumber permanent residents 10 to one. "In some ways, this is like the conflict between Americans and illegal immigrants in the States. The local residents feel threatened by the influx of migrants," Huang Youqin, an associate professor of geography at the University at Albany in New York who has Platform pumps studied gating and political control in China, said in an e- mail. "The risk is that the government can control people's private life if it wants to." The gated villages are the latest indignity for China's migrant workers, who already face limited access to schooling and government services and are routinely blamed by city folk for rising crime. Used to the hardship of the farm and the lack of privilege, migrants seem to be taking the new controls in stride. Jia Yangui said he accepts the new system as a trade-off for escaping farm work in the northern province of Shanxi. He arrived in Beijing less than two months ago and lives with a relative in one of the gated villages, Dashengzhuang. He sells oily pancakes just inside one of the gates. "Anyway, it's not as strict as before, when we migrants would be detained on the way to the toilet," said Jia's relative, a middle- aged woman who gave her family name as Zheng. "Sealed management" looks like this: Gates are placed at the street and alley entrances to the villages, which are collections of walled compounds sprinkled with shops and outdoor vendors. The gates are locked between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., except for one main entrance manned by security guards or police, there to check identification papers. Security guards roam the villages by day. "Closing up the village benefits everyone," read one banner put up when the first, permanent gated village was introduced in April. Tory burch shoes "Anyway, they should understand that it is all for their safety," said Guo Ruifeng, deputy director of Laosanyu's village committee. Guards only check papers if they see anything suspicious, he said. Wow gold!: Wow gold Wow gold 浏览(41) | 回复(0) |