The Influence of Income, Lifestyle, and Green Spaces on Interregional Migration: Policy Implications for China

Yang, Zhenshan; Cai, Jianming; Qi, Wei; Liu, Shenghe; Deng, Yu

doi:10.1002/psp.1996

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“…Under the spotlight are China's "first-tier" megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, plus a couple dozen provincial capitals, which are the most powerful magnets for migrants. Whereas China's internal migration has been thoroughly explored at the regional level (Chan, Liu, & Yang, 1999;Liu & Xu, 2015;Shen, 2012;Yang, Cai, Qi, Liu, & Deng, 2015), analysis at the city level has mostly emphasized the prominent migration flows to the first-tier cities and provincial capitals as well as the resultant social stratification in those cities (Cui, Hooimeijer, Geertman, & Pu, 2015;Fan, Sun, & Zheng, 2011). More specific research questions, such as gender differences (Fan, 2003), income disparities (Gravemeyer, Gries, & Xue, 2011), and housing choice (Huang, Dijst, van Weesep, Jiao, & Sun, 2016;Li, 2012), have almost always been investigated in the large and extralarge cities.…”

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Migration destinations in the urban hierarchy in China: Evidence from Jiangsu

Hao

Tang

2017

Population Space and Place

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Over the past quarter century, the mobilization of the human resources stored in China's rural hinterland has propelled the country's economic boom and urban explosion. Whereas the “first‐tier” cities and a couple dozen provincial capitals exert a strong pull on rural citizens, towns and cities in the middle and lower orders of the urban hierarchy also attract tens of millions of rural migrants. The pattern of migration and the settlement intention of the migrants who currently float between the urban and rural realms critically determine where and how China's urbanization is yet to progress. This paper explores the destination choice of rural migrants in the Jiangsu province. A multinomial logit model of intraprovincial migration is estimated, in which rural migrants choose from the 4 tiers in the urban hierarchy: large and extralarge cities, medium‐sized cities, small cities, and townships. Regression results suggest that rural migrants with different backgrounds and origins are attracted to different tiers of urban destinations. Culture, gender, educational attainment, occupation, and rural landholdings together function as a selection mechanism to sort rural migrants into various cities and towns. Other factors such as age, marital status, and income disparities, which typically drive migration, are not influential factors in deciding the destination choice. Among the migrant population, the choices of those who take up jobs (migrant workers) and those who seize business opportunities (migrant entrepreneurs) are dissimilarly affected by their socioeconomic characteristics and rural landholdings.

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Migration destinations in the urban hierarchy in China: Evidence from Jiangsu

Hao

Tang

2017

Population Space and Place

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“…It has long been recognised that the level of migration falls off with increasing distance between origin and destination (Ravenstein, 1885), and tools to quantify the migration or distance relationship have been available for a considerable period (Fotheringham & O'Kelly, 1989;Wilson, 1967). Nevertheless, there are few studies that have focused on quantifying the deterrence effect; see, for example, Makower, Marschak, and Robinson (1938); Schwartz (1973);and Yang, Cai, Qi, Liu, and Deng (2015) in a British, American, and Chinese context, respectively. Stillwell et al (2016) suggest that this is because of the absence of suitable datasets that provide origin and destination location with sufficient accuracy (see also Niedomysl, Ernstson, & Fransson, 2015).…”

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Explaining geographic patterns of small group internal migration

Sapiro

2017

Population Space and Place

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Internal migration plays a key role in shaping the demographic characteristics of areas. In this paper, data from the 2011 England and Wales census are used to assess the geographic patterns of migration for 4 small cultural groups that each constitute about 0.5% of the population—Arabs, Chinese, Jews, and Sikhs—with a White British “benchmark” group. It examines the sensitivity of the scale of intercommunity moves to distance, having controlled for other migrant characteristics, through the development of spatial interaction models. The analysis finds that, where a choice exists, Jews are more averse to making a longer move than other small groups, all of whom favour shorter moves than the White British. The paper also investigates the influence of origin location and socioeconomic characteristics on the choice of migration destination using multinomial logistic regression. It finds that the influence of student status, age, qualifications, and home tenure vary by group though a number of patterns are shared between groups. Finally, it probes the presence in these smaller groups of patterns found historically in the wider population, such as counter‐urbanisation. Overall, this paper broadens the understanding of minority group migration patterns by examining, for the first time, Arabs (identified separately only in the 2011 census) and 2 groups based on religion (Jews and Sikhs) and by revisiting, with new questions, the White British and Chinese groups using the latest census data.

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“…The political superstructure achieved the regional division and dynamic management by dividing the regions and ruling them. The historical set-up of administrative divisions was based on national unity and political stability, the modern adjustment of administrative divisions mainly served the practical needs of rapid economic and social development, as well as promoting urbanization (Zhou, 1998;Zhang et al, 2013;Yang et al, 2017). The adjustment of administrative divisions had the objective of promoting social and economic development in the different urban development stages.…”

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Evolutionary Pattern and Effect of Administrative Division Adjustment During Urbanization of China: Empirical Analysis on Multiple Scales

Deng

2018

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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The adjustment of administrative divisions is one of the important factors guiding China's urbanization, which has profound economic and social effects for regional development. In this paper, we comprehensively describe the process of the adjustment of administrative divisions at provincial and municipal levels in China and summarize the effects on the basic structure and patterns of the spatial development. We quantitatively assess the effects on fields such as urbanization and social economy through the use of multidimensional scaling. The results show that: 1) Upgrading county to municipality (or city-governed district) is the main way of adjusting the administrative divisions. It is also an important factor in the spatial differentiation of interprovincial urbanization. China's population urbanization can be divided into four patterns including interprovincial migration, provincial migration, natural growth, and growth caused by the adjustment of administrative divisions, which is also the main reason for the increased Chinese urbanization rate at the provincial level. 2) Taking the city of Beijing as an example, we generalize five adjustment patterns made to administrative divisions: the setup of sub-districts, the setup of regional offices, the upgrading of townships to sub-districts, the upgrading of townships to towns, and the setup of towns and the addition of new regional offices. We summarize the municipal urban spatial structure, including the sub-district office area in the central urban area, the regional office area in the new urban area, the mixed area of villages, towns, and sub-district offices in the suburb area, and the township area in the outer suburb area. 3) The adjustment of administrative divisions triggers a significant circulative accumulation effect, resulting in the spatial locking of population and industrial agglomeration. It affects the evolution of the urban spatial form and plays an important role in shaping the urban spatial structure to move to the characteristic of multicenter. In general, the adjustment of administrative divisions was an important factor affecting the inflated statistical level of urbanization and also an important driving force for the evolution of Chinese urban spatial organization structure.

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The Influence of Income, Lifestyle, and Green Spaces on Interregional Migration: Policy Implications for China

Cited by 44 publications

References 41 publications

Migration destinations in the urban hierarchy in China: Evidence from Jiangsu

Migration destinations in the urban hierarchy in China: Evidence from Jiangsu

Explaining geographic patterns of small group internal migration

Evolutionary Pattern and Effect of Administrative Division Adjustment During Urbanization of China: Empirical Analysis on Multiple Scales

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