Age‐differentiated impact of land appropriation and resettlement on landless farmers: a case study of Xinghua village, China

Tong, Weiming; Zhang, Pingyu; Lo, Kevin; Chen, Tiantian; Gao, Ran

doi:10.1111/1745-5871.12208

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“…Third, we need a better understanding of the uneven impact of land consolidation on various segments of society [36,37]. Our results show that age is an important factor in determining the life satisfaction of resettlers.…”

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Land Consolidation in Rural China: Life Satisfaction among Resettlers and Its Determinants

Tong

Zhang

2020

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The Chinese government has pursued rural land consolidation under the Building New Rural Communities (BNRC) initiative. The consolidation projects aim to address the hollowing village problem, improve the living standards of rural dwellers, and promote urban-rural integration. Rural villages with small populations and poor infrastructure are merged into a centralized rural community, and their inhabitants are resettled. The newly vacated buildings are then converted to agriculture land, which allows cities to expand under the “no net loss” land-use policy. Despite the significance of the initiative, both in terms of the scale of operation and the impacts on the affected households, there are few empirical studies that scrutinize this form of rural restructuring. Drawing on data collected via surveys and interviews, this paper examines the processes of land consolidation and its impacts on villagers. From a development-as-modernization perspective, we outline three main processes of land consolidation: village mergers and resettlement, land circulation to rural cooperatives, and rural industrial development. Overall, the effects of land consolidation on the livelihood of resettled villagers are positive. This system generally improves housing and living conditions through increased levels of off-farm employment and income, but there are a number of barriers that may hinder a villager’s ability to find different employment. Housing and neighborhood characteristics have significant effects on the life satisfaction of villagers.

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Land Consolidation in Rural China: Life Satisfaction among Resettlers and Its Determinants

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2020

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“…People having positive experiences could lead to positive environmental behaviors [12]. While policymakers and researchers have given great attention to China's landless farmers in terms of employment and livelihood restoration [13][14][15], they have left land expropriation and its emotional impacts relatively under-examined [16]. In attending to this lacuna, this paper aims to unpack the emotional aspects of "land" within the Chinese context.…”

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Beyond Place Attachment: Land Attachment of Resettled Farmers in Jiangsu, China

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This paper examines the concept of land attachment—a positive emotional relationship between a resettled farmer and his or her rural land—in the context of China’s rapid urbanization and the resultant huge number of resettled and landless farmers. It explores the nature of resettled farmers’ emotional relationships to rural land to reveal the kinds of land that are meaningful to famers’ lives, and the differences among different groups. The study’s conceptual framework was based on place attachment theory. Grounded theory was applied to analyze qualitative data obtained from in-depth interviews. The results show that land attachment can be divided into seven categories: landscape, lifestyle, land income, land rights, land rootedness, land culture, and villagers’ relationships. We also observed three categories of emotional relationships between resettled farmers and rural land: “reluctant to give up rural land and with land attachment”, “willing to give up rural land but with land attachment”, and “willing to give up rural land and without land attachment”. This study’s exploration of the concept of land attachment revealed that rural land is not merely an objective asset but that it also has a multidimensional existence, and may be the focus of subjective loss. The study also observed that it would be helpful to deepen understandings of the subjective loss experienced by resettled farmers as a result of land-requisition policies. Drawing from its findings, the paper concludes with suggestions supportive of the sustainable development of future policies and communities.

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“…It has been reported that more than 250-300 million people worldwide have been displaced over the past 20 years [11]. In China, the estimated number is 40 to 50 million and it will reach 110 million by 2030 [12]. Moreover, there is more than 90% illegal land acquisition by local governments in several cities [13], which have caused related legal and land-acquisition and resettlement (LAR) conflicts [13,14].…”

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Land-Acquisition and Resettlement (LAR) Conflicts: A Perspective of Spatial Injustice of Urban Public Resources Allocation

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Land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) is an important step in urban development. As one of the 'externalities of development', LAR conflicts have affected social stability and development in rural areas of China. With social conflict research shifting from value identity to resource allocation, few studies have examined the relationship between the spatial injustice of urban public resources and LAR conflict. To mitigate this research gap and formulate effective policies, this study aims to reinterpret the obstacles of LAR conflicts from the perspective of the spatial injustice of urban public facilities allocation in Hangzhou City by examining 195 administrative litigation cases. Spatial accessibility was used for estimating the spatial justice of urban public resources allocation. A classification and regression tree (CART) model was applied to identify the advantage and disadvantage factors behind LAR conflict, and explored the logical and structural relationships among these factors. Results showed that a spatial mismatch between the spatial behavior preferences of human activity and the spatial injustice of urban public resources allocation had significantly accelerated LAR conflicts. When the spatial behavior preferences of human activity and spatial distribution of urban public resources correspond to each other pre-and after LAR, basic rights to social space are safeguarded and various groups can equitably share spatial resources. There are no conflicts. Conversely, respondents expressed a high level of dissatisfaction in comparison to their pre-LAR conditions, and LAR conflict undeniably occurs. This approach also proposes some good LAR policies by regulating the spatial injustice of urban public resources allocation associated with LAR with the aim of long-term urban sustainable development for Hangzhou.

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Age‐differentiated impact of land appropriation and resettlement on landless farmers: a case study of Xinghua village, China

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Land Consolidation in Rural China: Life Satisfaction among Resettlers and Its Determinants

Land Consolidation in Rural China: Life Satisfaction among Resettlers and Its Determinants

Beyond Place Attachment: Land Attachment of Resettled Farmers in Jiangsu, China

Land-Acquisition and Resettlement (LAR) Conflicts: A Perspective of Spatial Injustice of Urban Public Resources Allocation

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