eprintid: 10188791 rev_number: 13 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/87/91 datestamp: 2024-03-12 11:06:30 lastmod: 2024-08-01 14:47:15 status_changed: 2024-03-12 11:06:30 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Zou, Jing creators_name: Wu, Fulong creators_name: Zhang, Fangzhu creators_name: Xu, Mengran creators_name: Liu, Siyao title: The social integration of rural migrants in urban China: The effect of hometown land tenure ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F39 keywords: Social integration; land tenure; land transfer; migrants; China note: This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: 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. date: 2024-07 date_type: published publisher: John Wiley and Sons official_url: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2766 full_text_type: other language: eng verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2255972 doi: 10.1002/psp.2766 lyricists_name: Wu, Fulong lyricists_id: FWUXX57 actors_name: Wu, Fulong actors_id: FWUXX57 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: No. 832845 [European Research Council] full_text_status: restricted publication: Population, Space and Place volume: 30 number: 5 article_number: e2766 issn: 1544-8444 citation: Zou, Jing; Wu, Fulong; Zhang, Fangzhu; Xu, Mengran; Liu, Siyao; (2024) The social integration of rural migrants in urban China: The effect of hometown land tenure. Population, Space and Place , 30 (5) , Article e2766. 10.1002/psp.2766 <https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2766>. document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188791/1/Wu_social%20integration%20of%20rural%20migrants_PSP%202024.pdf