Migrants, landlords and their uneven experiences of the Beijing Olympic Games

Shin, Hyun Bang ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-9221 and Li, Bingqin (2012) Migrants, landlords and their uneven experiences of the Beijing Olympic Games. CASE paper (163). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

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Abstract

Hosting of mega-events such as the Olympic Games tends to be accompanied by voluminous media coverage on the negative social impact of the Games, and the people in the affected areas are often considered to be one victim group sharing similar experiences. The research in this paper tries to unpack the heterogeneous groups in a particular sector of the housing market, and gain a better understanding of how the Olympic Games affects different resident groups. We take the example of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games and resort to empirical findings in an attempt to critically examine the experience of migrant tenants and Beijing citizens (landlords in particular) in ‘villages-in-the-city’ (known as cheongzhongcun) by delivering their own first-hand accounts of city-wide preparation for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympiad and the pervasive demolition threats to their neighbourhoods. The paper argues that the Beijing Summer Olympiad produced uneven, often exclusionary, Games experiences for a certain segment of urban population.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/publications/ab...
Additional Information:	© 2012 The Authors
Divisions:	Geography & Environment Social Policy Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2012 14:23
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 23:26
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/45608

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