Disabled peasant-workers back to their hometown are special social community need attention during the process of rapid industrialization. Based on field investigation of disabled peasant-workers back to their hometown living condition in Shandong Province

we analyses using Amartya Sen's capabilities method and found that disabled peasant-workers back to their hometown generally struggle with difficult life

illness suffering

limited social communication and lacking care. The reasons of survival predicament of disabled peasant-workers back to their hometown are economic poverty

barriers to political participation

lack of transparency assurance such as labor contract

limitation of medical rehabilitation and education

lack of employment injury insurance and medical insurance. We raise up policy suggestions according to these.