Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China

Mai, Xin; Wang, Jiejing

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103596

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“…This is consistent with previous research findings. Female career interruption led to the decline of female workers' wages (Viitanen, 2014;Ali et al, 2020) and restricted career development (Engelhardt et al, 2004;Mandel and Semyonov, 2006), which can harm women's economic integration. However, the link in cultural, psychological, and institutional integration was not significant.…”

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“…Thus, three economic indicators were selected: income level, occupational class, and occupational stability. Given that many scholars emphasized the importance of social networks and social relationships in the community for integration ( Mai and Wang, 2022 ), social group participation was selected as an indicator to measure cultural integration. Based on the Chinese long-standing advocacy of gender equality, women were encouraged to participate in politics and show their responsibility.…”

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“…For female workers, career interruption was a unique mother career trajectory embedded in the female life cycle that can indelibly mark a woman's career (Cukrowska-Torzewska and Matysiak, 2020). Meanwhile, female career interruption increased the risk of female career downward mobility and reduced the opportunity for career upward mobility (Engelhardt et al, 2004;Mandel and Semyonov, 2006). The negative impact of female career interruption was directly reflected in "wage punishment" (Viitanen, 2014;Ali et al, 2020).…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypotheses Female Career Inte...mentioning

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“…Once a woman's career was interrupted, her social role changed from an employee to an unemployed, and her relationship network and interpersonal objects also changed from the original work, life, and other multiple situations. Meanwhile, female career interrupters faced multiple pressures of family-work conflict (Hammer et al, 2003) and career development (Mandel and Semyonov, 2006), which consumed their existing energy and increase their psychological costs. In particular, female reproductive career interruption solidified the existing gender segregation in the workplace, and discrimination by employers accompanied the whole life throughout her career (Li, 2015).…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypotheses Female Career Inte...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Female career interruption and social integration: An interaction between human capital and new media use

Liu

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Promoting the social integration of various groups provides a significant guarantee for China to achieve high-quality development. However, female workers, as the main force of the service industry, had suffered a greater occupational impact due to COVID-19 and loosened China’s fertility policy in 2021. After female career interruption, the change in women’s social roles and networks has aroused concern about their social integration. However, limited attention had been paid to female career interruption in existing studies about social integration. Therefore, this study developed a theoretical model to explore the relationship between female career interruption and social integration. An empirical test using data from the fourth Chinese Women’s Social Status Survey of Hainan Province was applied to evaluate the hypotheses. The results indicate that there is a significantly negative correlation between female career interruption and social integration. And there is a difference among female career interrupters with different quantiles of social integration. Furthermore, the impact of human capital on the link between female career interruption and social integration depended on the type of new media use. When female career interrupters who use strong learning-oriented new media (such as learning about news, working/business, studying online, and investing/financial management) encounter human capital, the relationship between female career interruption and social integration is minimal. In contrast, this relationship is enhanced when female career interrupters who use strong amusing-oriented new media (such as online consumption, chatting, entertainment, and games) are confronted with human capital. Meanwhile, the results of quantile regression show that the secondary moderating effect of learning-oriented new media use gradually weakens with the rise of the quantile of female social integration. And so does amusing-oriented new media use. However, a moderating effect of human capital alone is not found.

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Section: Literature Review and Research Hypotheses Female Career Inte...mentioning

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Liu

2022

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“…Literature focusing on segmented integration theory highlights that ethnically bound subgroups may retain their ethnic identities and cultural customs (Bloemraad et al, 2008;Mai & Wang, 2022), which decreases their probability of entering homeownership.…”

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Migration up and down the urban hierarchy: The mediating effects of geographic mobility on migrants' homeownership

Cui

2023

Population Space and Place

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In the past two decades, migrants' homeownership has received increasing attention, as migrants have become increasingly heterogeneous in terms of socio‐economic status and choice of the destination city. However, how migrants move across the urban hierarchy and thereby affect their housing consumption has received scant attention. Using the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this study examines the relationship between migrants' socio‐economic status and their geographic mobility along the urban hierarchy, as well as the impacts on their housing outcomes in the destination city. Employing generalised structural equation modelling, the results show that migrants with higher education levels and higher family income are more likely to make an upward movement, through which they accumulated their capital and advantages to overcome difficulties and settle in the destination. However, the steeper they climb along the urban hierarchy, the less likely they could own a home in the destination city. This study contributes to the existing literature by highlighting the divergence in migrants' geographic mobility and its importance in understanding the variegated housing outcomes among the migration population.

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Get out of life on the edge: The role of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration in China

Li,

Wang

2024

Population Space and Place

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Public health services for migrants are not only related to their health status, but also crucial to their social integration in the host cities. Using data from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, we examine the impacts of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration. We find a positive correlation between the accessibility of public health services among migrants and their social integration. Research on the mechanisms reveals that obtaining public health services contribute to social integration by improving migrants’ health status, fostering the alignment of hygiene practices with those of local residents and promoting family migration. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive impact of public health services on social integration is notably pronounced among migrants engaged in informal employment, lacking social security, holding rural hukou and having a relatively brief duration of residence in the host cities. This paper presents valuable insights into migrants’ social integration which is a critical issue for policymakers. By improving the accessibility of public health services, migrants will better integrate into host cities. The findings may be instructive for promoting urbanization in China and other countries.

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Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China

Cited by 27 publications

References 82 publications

Female career interruption and social integration: An interaction between human capital and new media use

Female career interruption and social integration: An interaction between human capital and new media use

Migration up and down the urban hierarchy: The mediating effects of geographic mobility on migrants' homeownership

Get out of life on the edge: The role of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration in China

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