TY  - JOUR
VL  - 30
N1  - This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
JF  - Population, Space and Place
PB  - John Wiley and Sons
A1  - Zou, Jing
A1  - Wu, Fulong
A1  - Zhang, Fangzhu
A1  - Xu, Mengran
A1  - Liu, Siyao
KW  - Social integration; land tenure; land transfer; migrants; China
AV  - restricted
Y1  - 2024/07//
SN  - 1544-8444
TI  - The social integration of rural migrants in urban China: The effect of hometown land tenure
ID  - discovery10188791
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2766
IS  - 5
N2  - While rural migrants living in different housing tenures present significantly variegated levels of social integration, little is known about how land tenure in their place of origin affects their integration into the host cities. Using the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, we identified three dimensions of social integration: 1) permanent settlement intention, 2) cultural integration, and 3) psychological integration. We find that migrants do not feel psychological isolation; their settlement intention is lower as a more realistic judgment of prospects. Their cultural integration is even lower, indicating it is a long-term process. Migrants with land farming by relatives and friends and land subleasing to private are more socially integrated, while hiring someone to cultivate the land, leaving land uncultivated, and other land disposal methods reduces migrants? social integration. Further, land subleasing led to stronger psychological integration, even after controlling for the potential endogeneity issue. It weakens their attachment to their hometowns and increases their income to achieve stronger integration. The effect is more salient in the migrants of the new generation, in second-tier cities, and in the digital economy sector.
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