Spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Implications of job accessibility for Chinese low-wage workers

Fan, Yingling; Allen, Ryan; Sun, Tieshan

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.06.002

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“…This system leaves them feeling like outsides in Dashilar and discourages them from communicating and interacting with others, especially local people. Previous studies have focused mainly on the hukou system's role in limiting access to employment [26,27], but this study showed that lacking a hukou gives migrants in Dashilar a marginal status in other ways and may present additional barriers limiting their daily travel. Such obstacles to mobility have been overlooked by previous studies on migrants in China.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Several studies found that migrants in Beijing experience lower access to job opportunities via public transit [27] and higher commuting costs [76] than local citizens. Another study claimed that migrants' travel distances and times tended to be short and that their main travel modes were walking and cycling [28].…”

Section: Migrants In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some previous studies found that migrants may have difficulties in daily travel because of limitations in the travel modes available to them [26][27][28]. However, these studies did not investigate the experiences and feelings of migrants regarding daily travel, nor did they explain how the residents coped with their mobility challenges.…”

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Restrained mobility in a high-accessible and migrant-rich area in downtown Beijing

Zhao

2017

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose Immigrant travel has become an emerging research field in transportation planning. A handful of scholars have studied the travel behavior of residents in immigrant enclaves in North America. However, thus far, there has been no analysis of the travel behavior of residents living in migrant-rich neighborhoods in China. Additionally, previous studies rarely explored whether these (im)migrants could benefit from resources outside the neighborhoods, and the determinants of their travel to destinations outside the neighborhoods. This study aims to fill these research gaps in the literature. We used a migrant-rich area in downtown Beijing as a case study to understand the daily mobility and the determinants, and strategies to enhance mobility of neighborhood residents. Method To answer the above questions, in-depth interview in Dashilar was used in this study. Eighteen migrant workers were recruited by using snowball sampling, and six local residents were recruited as Bobservers^to view the mobility of migrant workers from another perspective. The interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed and coded. Results The research results show that the interviewees had restrained mobility, limited to the area within Dashilar. Their work location was near residence, and they seldom made recreation and social trips. One of the major reasons for this was that their social ties were highly restricted to people from the same hometown. Additionally, time and financial poverty further limited their mobility. Institutional barriers also segregated migrant workers with local people in job market, urban welfare and daily life. In order to improve physical mobility, migrant workers used electric bicycle as their daily travel facility. The use of mobile phone also improved their virtual mobility by facilitating information flow and extending social networks. Moreover, community initiatives such as community activities and volunteers helped to improve their mobility. Conclusions Dashilar is an area with abundant transport resources and activity destination choices, but migrant workers living there still restrained their daily travel within the neighborhood. Although resources within the neighborhood facilitated daily necessities of migrant workers living in Dashilar, they seldom benefited from the resources outside the neighborhood, which played a larger role in promoting their social and cultural assimilation in the city. Their limited local social ties, individual time and money constraints, and institutional factors all contributed to their limited destination motivations and aspirations. To cope with these challenges, migrant workers and communities both adopted several strategies. These strategies could address the above challenges to some extent, but their limitations also fixed mobility of migrant workers. Combination of Internet of mobile phone and community initiatives was a feasible way to link migrant workers and local people, and help them to improve enlarge mobility space.

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Restrained mobility in a high-accessible and migrant-rich area in downtown Beijing

Zhao

2017

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“…The majority of migrant settlements formed between the Third and Sixth Ring Road since 1985s (Y. Fan, Allen, & Sun, 2014;Gu & Shen, 2003b) (Fig. 4.12).…”

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New Wenzhou: Migration, metropolitan spatial development and modernity in a third-tier Chinese model city

Lin

Gaubatz

2015

Habitat International

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“…However, the Chinese jobs-housing mismatch-like western cities-has resulted in a spatial barrier to the low-income groups. Scholars have also warned that discriminatory site selection of affordable housing and the jobs-housing mismatch in China would bring about the problems of exacerbating poverty, unemployment, and residential and social segregation in the long-term [28][29][30][31]. Therefore, in order to ameliorate this unsustainable urbanization, a clear understanding of the phenomenon is required.…”

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Peripherization of Indemnificatory Housing Community under Land-Centered Urban Transformation: The Case of Nanjing, China

Zhang

2017

Sustainability

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Indemnificatory housing programs-a kind of state-backed urban low-end and nonmarket housing programs which used to be welfare-have now increasingly evolved to be the vehicle to promote capital accumulation. Most of these housing communities show peripherization with high rates of unemployment, low income, poverty, and social exclusion, which violates their sustainability. This paper examines the impacts of land-centered urban transformation on indemnificatory housing communities, and analyzes the causes of unsustainable outcomes in political economy discourse. To achieve this, the social and economic conditions of a longstanding suburban indemnificatory housing community in Nanjing were analyzed. Survey data collected from March to April 2016 was evaluated to determine the peripherization of the residents within it. We found that for many residents, high rates of unemployment, low income, and poverty were mainly caused by their individual demographic and socioeconomic disadvantages, with the peripheral physical and social location contributing by exacerbating their vulnerabilities. It is concluded that local governments' land-centered urban transformation and the central government's affordable housing policies aimed at social and economic crisis mitigation combine to produce suburban indemnificatory housing communities, driving low-income relocated residents into more disadvantaged situations. This finding creates important lessons for the sustainable development of Chinese indemnificatory housing communities.

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Spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Implications of job accessibility for Chinese low-wage workers

Cited by 91 publications

References 33 publications

Restrained mobility in a high-accessible and migrant-rich area in downtown Beijing

Restrained mobility in a high-accessible and migrant-rich area in downtown Beijing

New Wenzhou: Migration, metropolitan spatial development and modernity in a third-tier Chinese model city

Peripherization of Indemnificatory Housing Community under Land-Centered Urban Transformation: The Case of Nanjing, China

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