scholarly journals “If you haven’t shaoguo’ed, you haven’t eaten”

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
Erin Thomason
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Agricultural Wastes ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Rural Identity ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Biomass Stoves ◽  
Cook Stoves

Biomass stoves, or shaoguo, are used exclusively in rural China for everyday cooking. Making use of agricultural wastes, these improved cook stoves are an economically efficient way to prepare foods and provide a complex taste profile to the everyday wheat-based staples cooked in them. Nevertheless, these stoves are associated with rural backwardness and failures of rural development. In this article, I understand shaoguo as a productive part of making home and belonging for families affected by urban migration. Considering the ways that shaoguo indexes rural identity and social belonging, I think through the connections between cooking and creating spaces of home.

scholarly journals SEPARATED KIN: RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AND MENTAL HEALTH TRAJECTORIES OF OLDER ADULTS LEFT BEHIND IN RURAL CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S880-S880
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Lin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The Impact

Abstract As the processes of urbanization and globalization have intensified across the world, a burgeoning literature has documented the impact of emigration on the health of family members left behind in emigrant communities. Although the association between children’s migration and parental well-being is well documented, few have examined the health implications of children’s migration in the milieu of multiple children and further differentiated between children’s short-term and long-term migration. Therefore, I argue that it is not the geographic locality of a single child but the composition of all children’s location that matters. I further suggest that the impact of children’s migration on parental wellbeing is conditioned on the duration of children’s migration. Using a six waves longitudinal data (2001-2015) collected in rural China, this paper compares mental health (measured as depressive symptoms) trajectories of old adults (aged 60 and older) across different compositions of local and migrant children over a 14-year span. Results from growth curve models show that parents having more migrant children relative to local children experience a more rapid increase in depressive symptoms. In addition, older adults who have their most children migrate away for three or more waves of data have experienced the steepest rate of increase in depressive symptoms. These findings provide new evidence to support the life course processes of mental health disparities among older adults from the perspective of intergenerational proximity.

PARENTAL AND SIBLING MIGRATION AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AMONG RURAL CHILDREN IN CHINA

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
MING WEN ◽  
KELIN LI
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Rural Children ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Nutrition Survey ◽  
Prospective Survey ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Health And Nutrition

SummaryThis study examines the associations between parental and sibling rural-to-urban migration and blood pressure (BP) of rural left-behind children (LBC) in rural China. Analysis was based on the 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2009 waves of longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, which is an ongoing prospective survey covering nine provinces with an individual-level response rate of 88%. Blood pressure levels were measured by trained examiners at three consecutive times on the same visit and the means of three measurements were used as the final BP values. An ordinal BP measure was then created using a recently validated age–sex-specified distribution for Chinese children and adolescents, distinguishing normal BP, pre-hypertension and hypertension. Random effect modelling was performed. Different migration circumstances play different roles in LBC's BP with mother-only and both-parent migration being particularly detrimental and father-only and sibling-only migration either having no association or a negative association with LBC's BP levels or odds of high BP. In conclusion, the link between family migration and left-behind children's blood pressure is complex, and depends on who is the person out-migrating.

scholarly journals Research on China's Rural Development Strategy Based on SWOT-AHP Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Xianfeng Guo ◽  
Han Yan ◽  
Wei Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Modern Agriculture ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
China’S Economy

The rapid urbanization development has helped China's economy to rise sharply, and it has also plunged the countryside into a development dilemma. Based on a questionnaire survey of 25 industry experts, this paper uses SWOT-AHP analysis to study the advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and threats of rural development, and finally determines the development strategy of rural China. Put forward three suggestions on rural development in China, that is, grasp the national strategic opportunity to develop modern agriculture, upgrade the level of rural human capital and cultivate the concept of ecological civilization.

Parents' preferred care-givers in rural China: gender, migration and intergenerational exchanges

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 727-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHEN CONG ◽  
MERRIL SILVERSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Instrumental Support ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Intergenerational Exchanges

ABSTRACTThis study examines how intergenerational exchanges affect elders' choice of preferred care-givers in the case of sickness among adult children in rural China. The sample derived from a four-wave longitudinal study in Anhui Province, China, based on which we constructed three time intervals (i.e.2001–2003, 2003–2006 and 2006–2009) and stacked them. Our working sample included 10,181 observations from these three stacked intervals, representing 4,927 children with 1,170 elder parents. We used fixed-effects logistic regression to predict elders' favouritism among their children. Results show that those children who received more help with grandchild care from parents, who provided instrumental support to parents and whose spouses provided instrumental support to parents were more likely to be named the preferred care-givers. On average, parents favoured sons. For mothers, this favouritism was completely explained by proximity and intergenerational exchanges, and even reversed under certain circumstances. For fathers, this favouritism of sons was partially explained by proximity and intergenerational exchanges. Migrant children were less likely to be preferred care-givers. This effect was moderated by elder parents' help with caring for grandchildren. Particularly, mothers favoured daughters over sons if the above moderation effect was considered. We discuss these findings in the context of social changes including increased importance of daughters in elder parents' support networks and the large-scale rural to urban migration.

scholarly journals Rural-Urban Migration and its Effect on Land Transfer in Rural China

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dingde Xu ◽  
Zhuolin Yong ◽  
Xin Deng ◽  
Linmei Zhuang ◽  
Chen Qing
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Land Transfer ◽  
Average Probability ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
The Impact

Labor force rural-urban migration will lead to changes to the land use patterns of farmers. Using the survey data on dynamic migration of the Chinese labor force in 2014, iv-probit and iv-tobit models were used to analyze the impact of labor migration on the land transfer of farmers. The results show that: (1) Off-farm employment would significantly impact land transfer of farmers and the results are robust. With every 10% increase in the proportion of off-farm employment of farmers, the average probability of rent-in land of farmers decreases by 1.55%, and the average transfer in land area of farmers decreased by 1.04%. Similarly, with every 10% increase in the proportion of off-farm employment of farmers, the average probability of rent-out land of farmers increases by 4.77%, and the average transfer out land area of farmers increases by 3.98%. (2) Part-time employment also has a significant impact on land transfer of farmers, but the impact of part-time employment on land transfer in is not robust. Specifically, with every 10% increase in part-farm employment, the average probability of rent-out land of farmers increases by 7.64%, and the average transfer out land area of farmers increases by 6.85%.

Rural Development and Urban Migration: Can We Keep Them down on the Farm?

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rhoda
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
Migration Theories

The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that rural development projects and programs reduce rural-urban migration. Migration theories and empirical research are briefly reviewed, generalizations are established and these are used to test the hypothesis for a variety of rural development interventions. The study concludes that the common belief that rural interventions reduce urban migration is not justified. While the migration impact of any specific intervention depends on its characteristics and those of the rural area into which it is introduced, some generalizations can be made. Rural-urban migration may be reduced by interventions which increase cultivatable land, equalize land or income distribution, or decrease fertility. On the other hand, migration appears to be stimulated by interventions which increase access to cities, commercialize agriculture, strengthen rural-urban integration, raise education and skill levels, or increase rural inequalities.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION OF YOUTHS ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN OGBOMOSO SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OYO STATE. NIGERIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
A. O. OKETAYO ◽  
Y. L. OLALEYE
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

The study examined the effect of rural-urban migration of youth on rural development in Ogbomoso South Local Government Area of Oyo State. Rural-urban migration is a phenomenon that most developing nations of the world are experiencing due to the gross neglect of the rural areas. In Nigeria, the issue of rural-urban migration is quite alarming owing to the discriminatory centralization of facilities in the urban areas as well as widening income gap between the urban and rural areas. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design while purposive sampling technique was used in selecting 300 from Ogbomoso south LGAs.  The data collected was tested by using Pearson product moment correlation and ANOVA. The study established that self-help project had significant relationship with youth out-migration (r = .351*, N= 300, P < .05), community economy  also had significant relationship with out-migration (r = .277*, N= 300, P < .05), care for elderly had negative significant relationship with out-migration(r = -.182*, N= 300, P < .05) and cultural practices also had significant relationship with out-migration (r = .198*, N= 300, P < .05). The study recommended  that; government should decentralize its developmental projects and programmes in order to accommodate the rural areas. Government should make agriculture attractive for rural dwellers so that they could see it as a profitable occupation and there should be economic incentives to promote adaptation of indigenous skills and technologies in the rural areas. 

Lineage networks, urban migration and income inequality: Evidence from rural China

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Foltz ◽  
Yunnan Guo ◽  
Yang Yao
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Urban Migration
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