This paper examines the impacts of floating population on urban land by presenting the interrelations between floating population and urban land expansion from the perspective of production land and living land.
In China, the pattern is predominantly one of a vast floating population of migrant workers who follow jobs from city to city.
In this iconic boarding house, Wilson condenses the experiences of a floating population of African-Americans, who find themselves ill-equipped to survive their emancipation.
During the summer months, the floating population of tourists and seasonal workers can add up to double the number of permanent residents, putting huge pressure on the towns' resources.
At the bottom of the heap, a "floating population" of about 130m migrants work in China's boomtowns, taking home 1,348 yuan a month on average last year.
A floating population of perhaps as many as 100,000 laborers, most of them Moroccan, pick the tomatoes, strawberries and eggplants or move with the seasons to harvest olives and oranges around Andalusia.
As a freelance journalist based in Peshawar, Shah often outshone the "floating population of grizzled American war reporters, who had done 'Nam and 'Bode and who thought they might as well do Af before they retired".
Is Cal actually without the will to confront the floating population of anti-everything reactionaries to create housing in People's Park and instead masks this timidness and fear as due to some sort of implausible financing constraint?
The so-called floating population of China increased by 10 million last year, adding to the enormous number of people who are moving from China's countryside to its cities to look for work, according to the National Population and Family Planning Commission.
Yet it is worth remembering that China has paid a price for its meteoric ascent: Its shiny cities have been built by a floating population of migrant workers who are treated as second-class citizens.
