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Concepts and Methods: Coping as a Social Action

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This research employs a micro–macro perspective: policy at the macro-level and individuals’ action at the micro-level. Correspondingly, two conceptual frameworks are applied, i.e., policy intervention and individuals’ coping. This chapter starts with a detailed explanation of policy intervention. Following this, an introduction is given to the concept of coping as a social action. Due to the different coping strategies individuals may take adopt, three forms of coping are proposed in this book: administrative coping, political coping, and social coping. Government policies are the main coping resource for migrant workers’ administrative coping. Political coping refers to migrant workers taking political action to cope with events during migration, such as organizing a strike or protest. Social coping means that migrant workers pool their social resources to deal with events and social networks play an essential role during this type of coping.

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Sun, L. (2019). Concepts and Methods: Coping as a Social Action. In: Rural Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8093-7_3

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