eprintid: 10188791
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datestamp: 2024-03-12 11:06:30
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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>.      
 
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