There are increasing studies of migrant workers as the increasing size of the migrant workers in China. The complexity of migrant worker study in China forced the researchers to study it from different angles or perspective focusing on a certain facet of migrant workers. However, the author puts these studies into 4 paradigms: migrants, urbanization, class-making, and labor-institutions and the migrant workers are treated as migrants, semi-residents, workers and laborers respectively. The four paradigms focus on different facets of migrant workers with different research perspectives and frameworks and set up some approaches to study migrant workers in a comprehensive perspective. Comparatively speaking the labor-institutions paradigm is not a mature paradigm yet , but it provides a possible research framework to study migrant workers comprehensively covering most of the factors such as institutions, policies, motivations, attitudes and behaviors, etc. Such comprehensive study can more objectively explain the increasing large size of migrant workers in the past decades in China and therefore benefit the studies of the migration , urbanization and class-making paradigm in China.%中国农民工数量的持续增加也使得相关研究与日俱增。但是，由于农民工现象的复杂性，研究者从不同的角度和侧面对这一现象进行了界定和分析，并使得农民工研究不够全面。为了理解这些研究并为未来研究提供参考，本文从对农民工的界定出发，区分出当前农民工研究的四种主要范式：移民范式、城市化范式、阶级形成范式和劳动体制范式。虽然它们所研究的问题和所使用的概念存在交叉重合，但是这四种范式在根本上对农民工进行了不同的界定。它们分别将农民农界定为“移民”、“准市民”、“工人”和“劳动力”。进而，它们关注了不同的核心问题，采用了不同的概念框架。不过，四种范式并不是相互排斥的。这也为未来更综合的研究提供了基础。尤其是，虽然劳动体制范式还没有成为一种成熟的农民工研究范式，但是劳动体制范式可以综合性地对农民工现象所涉及的制度、政策、行为、动机、态度和行为进行客观分析，从而揭示农民工群体的长期存在和不断增加，进而为城市化和阶级形成等问题提供更坚实的基础。
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