as the largest labour flow in human history, the recent rise inmigration in china has opened up unprecedented opportunities formillions of chinese to rearrange their lives. at the same time, thisprocess has also posed great challenges to chinese migrants,especially female migrants, who not only face a bias against‘outsiders’ but also have a greater need for reproductivehealth-related services in their migratory destinations. based ondata collected via multiple sources in shanghai, china’s largestmetropolis, this study profiles the changing characteristics offemale migrants, presents data on self-reported symptoms ofreproductive health-related problems and knowledge on reproductivehealth issues, compares maternal and child health measures betweenmigrants and local residents, and examines factors related toreproductive health knowledge and migrants’ access to health care inurban china. results of this study show a relatively low level ofself-reported reproductive health problems among female migrants,coupled with a relatively high level of ignorance in knowledgerelated to std. both self-reported health status and knowledge ofreproductive health are related to migrants’ educational attainmentand length of stay in the urban destination. this study also findsample evidence that female migrants’ access to urban health care islimited by a number of institutional barriers.