| There is no controversy that the issue of migrant workers needs to be governed ,but how to govern that issue is critical. Thus, the paper quotes the concept of governmentality of Foucault, analyses the homology of power technology, self technology and social work, and then demonstrates the rationality of social work as a kind of governmentality. Based on this, the paper introduces the conditions of migrant workers governing since the founding of our country from varies bodies, including the state, mass self-government organizations ,social working organizations and so on，alone or cross. The study found that China''s governmentality of migrant workers can be divided into three stages : The first stage is "to persuade, prevent, stop, force", consisting mainly soft and hard governmentality; The second stage is the internal and external governance of "comfort, education, treatment and correction"; The third stage is the ideal governmentality which should be "empowerment" and "action" of governance. |
