Living condition among China’s rural–urban migrants: recent dynamics and the inland–coastal differential

Niu, Geng; Zhao, Guochang

doi:10.1080/02673037.2017.1351924

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“…A recent study related to rural-urban migration in China evaluated the current dynamics of living, and creatively showed that an individual's native place might have an enormous impact on the housing demand of Chinese migrants. The idea that improving the housing system is an effective approach to resolving the housing problem for migrants in China is elaborated at the end of this paper [6]. Through the above expositions, we find that there are great differences in the influencing factors of regional research, although some factors, such as age, income, education, and household size, are widely recognized.…”

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“…The development trends between these micro-communities manifest differently, according to aspects such as social factors. As a result, various demands occur for social resources, particularly housing demand, and these demands must receive attention as a critical part of sustainable urban development [6]. On the other hand, the RMP is not eligible for the social benefits resulting from economic growth because of household registration restrictions [7,8].…”

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“…On the other hand, the RMP is not eligible for the social benefits resulting from economic growth because of household registration restrictions [7,8]. This population's position is on the edge of urban society; that is, it is excluded from urban society [6,9]. Although this social status quo has been improved by the housing security policy, current policy does not perfectly match the population's needs [10].…”

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Internal Differentiation within the Rural Migrant Population from the Sustainable Urban Development Perspective: Evidence from China

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Population mobility and attendant issues, especially housing issues, have a major impact on sustainable urban development. In the urbanization process, a number of micro-communities with various social characteristics have come to compose the rural migrant population (RMP), resulting in internal differentiation. This study aims to reveal the demographic structure of this specific group, and to analyze the effects of the mechanism between population flow trends and sustainable urban development, taking housing demand as a starting point. To this end, a clustering model for mixed-type data based on partitioning around the medoid is proposed, and the linked characteristics and potential laws of the RMP are analyzed, based on the dynamic data of the migrant population in eastern China. To achieve sustainable urban development, the locational preferences and coping strategies of inflowing micro-communities based on city types are demonstrated. The results show that the RMP can be divided into four groups that have strong representativeness and that show significant differences in population structure and housing demand. Super-large and medium-sized cities are the main migration destinations. Several suggestions are proposed, based on these results. Housing security policies should be designed according to the housing demand characteristics and the spatial distribution of different groups. Housing security policies should play a full and positive role in reasonably guiding RMP movement.

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“…This may push up the average educational level of migrants living in Beijing's households. However, compared with other migrant surveys (Niu and Zhao, 2018), our survey is biased towards those with high educational attainment.…”

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An investigation of migrants’ residential satisfaction in Beijing

2019

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Chinese cities have witnessed enormous neighbourhood changes as a result of housing reforms, rapid urban expansion and massive rural-to-urban migration. Migrants, without local hukou status, are confronted with many constraints in accessing urban housing. While previous studies have focused on migrants’ poor housing conditions, relatively little is known about their self-selection into different neighbourhood types, as well as their subjective evaluation of the living environment in local areas. Drawing upon a large-scale questionnaire survey conducted in Beijing in 2013, we examine the factors influencing migrants’ residential choices, in particular urban villages versus other neighbourhood types, in a multinomial logit model, and the sources of residential satisfaction in a multilevel framework. The results show that migrants sort themselves into different neighbourhoods contingent on demographic and socio-economic factors, and express different levels of satisfaction after controlling for individual attributes and geographical context. Moreover, their self-selection significantly influences residential satisfaction.

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“…The population of internal migrants increased from about 6 million in the 1980s to 244 million in 2017, accounting for about 18% of the population size nowadays in China [ 13 , 14 ]. The majority of internal migrants occupied job positions that would not otherwise be filled by the locals [ 15 ], making a great contribution to the economic development in China over the past few decades [ 16 , 17 ].…”

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Inequality in Health Services for Internal Migrants in China: A National Cross-Sectional Study on the Role of Fund Location of Social Health Insurance

Yao

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2020

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On-the-spot settlements of medical bills for internal migrants enrolled with a social health insurance program outside of their residential location have been encouraged by the Chinese government, with the intention to improve equality in healthcare services. This study compared the use of health services between the internal migrants who had local health insurance coverage and those who did not. Data (n = 144,956) were obtained from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey. Use of health services was assessed by two indicators: visits to physicians when needed and registration (shown as health records) for essential public health services. Multi-level logistic regression models were established to estimate the effect size of fund location on the use of health services after controlling for variations in other variables. The respondents who enrolled with a social health insurance scheme locally were more likely to visit physicians when needed (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.18, 95% CI = 1.06–1.30) and to have a health record (AOR = 1.47, 95% CI = 1.30–1.65) compared with those who enrolled outside of their residential location: a gap of 3.5 percentage points (95% CI: 1.3%–5.8%) and 6.1 percentage point (95% CI: 4.3%–7.8%), respectively. The gaps were larger in the rural-to-urban migrants than those in the urban-to-urban migrants (AOR = 1.17, 95% CI = 0.93–1.48 for visiting physicians when needed; AOR = 0.71, 95% CI = 0.54–0.93 for having a health record). The on-the-spot medical bill settlement system has yet to fully achieve its proposed potential as inequalities in both medical and public health services remain between the internal migrants with and without local health insurance coverage. Further studies are needed to investigate how on-the-spot settlements of medical bills are implemented through coordination across multiple insurance funds.

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Living condition among China’s rural–urban migrants: recent dynamics and the inland–coastal differential

Cited by 30 publications

References 25 publications

Internal Differentiation within the Rural Migrant Population from the Sustainable Urban Development Perspective: Evidence from China

Internal Differentiation within the Rural Migrant Population from the Sustainable Urban Development Perspective: Evidence from China

An investigation of migrants’ residential satisfaction in Beijing

Inequality in Health Services for Internal Migrants in China: A National Cross-Sectional Study on the Role of Fund Location of Social Health Insurance

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