scholarly journals Resilience and Circularity: Revisiting the Role of Urban Village in Rural-Urban Migration in Beijing, China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1284
Author(s):  
Ran Liu ◽  
Yuhang Jia
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Recent policies in China have encouraged rural-urban circular migration and an “amphibious” and flexible status of settlement, reacting against the recent risks of economic fluctuation in cities. Rural land, as a form of insurance and welfare, can handle random hazards, and the new Land Management Law guarantees that rural migrants who settle in the city can maintain their rights to farmland, homesteads, and a collective income distribution. Existing studies have pointed out that homeland tenure can reduce migrants’ urban settlement intentions (which is a self-reported subjective perception of city life). However, little is known about how the rural-urban circularity and rural tenure system (especially for those still holding hometown lands in the countryside) affect rural migrants’ temporary urban settlements (especially for those preferring to stay in informal communities in the host city). The existing studies on the urban villages in China have focused only on the side of the receiving cities, but have rarely mentioned the other side of this process, focusing on migrants’ rural land tenure issues in their hometowns. This study discusses the rationale of informality (the urban village) and attests to whether, and to what extent, rural migrants’ retention of their hometown lands can affect their tenure security choices (urban village or not) in Chinese metropolises such as Beijing. Binary logistic regression was conducted and the data analysis proved that rural migrants who kept their hometown lands, compared to their land-loss counterparts, were more likely to live in a Beijing urban village. This displays the resilience and circularity of rural-urban migration in China, wherein the rural migrant households demonstrate the “micro-family economy”, maintaining tenure security in their hometown and avoiding the dissipation of their family income in their destination. The Discussion and Conclusions sections of this paper refer to some policy implications related to maintaining the rural-urban dual system, protecting rural migrant land rights, and beefing up the “opportunity structure” (including maintaining the low-rent areas in metropolises such as Beijing) in the 14th Five Year Plan period.

Rural–urban migration and childrearing values of rural migrants in contemporary China

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-383
Author(s):  
Yuling Wu ◽  
Hong Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Rural Household ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Household Registration ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

In this study, we investigate the correlation between migrant-related factors and migrants’ childrearing values concerning community-oriented versus individual-based dimensions, with a particular interest in the effects of rural household registration ( hukou) status and settlement intention. Using data from the 2009 Longitudinal Survey on Rural–Urban Migration in China, we find that rural migrants stress individual-based qualities the most, such as independence, diligence, and responsibility, while they also emphasize certain community-oriented qualities, such as tolerance/respect, and obedience. Local or non-local rural hukou status at the city level is not an important factor in people’s migrant lives when it comes to shaping childrearing values. Instead, settlement intention is found to be more important than hukou status in affecting rural migrants’ childrearing values, particularly in non-local rural migrants, in that rural migrants with settlement intention tend to favor community-oriented values as opposed to individual-based values for their children.

scholarly journals Urban Life-Worlds in Motion: In Africa and Beyond

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Peter Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
Urban Contexts

Although throughout the history of anthropology the ethnography of urban societies was never an important topic, investigations on cities in Africa contributed to the early theoretical development of urban studies in social sciences. As the ethnography of rural migrants in towns made clear, cultural diversity and creativity are foundational and permanent elements of urban cultures in Africa (and beyond). Currently, two new aspects complement these insights: 1) Different forms of mobility have received a new awareness through the concept of transnationalism. They are much more complex, including not only rural–urban migration, but also urban–urban migration, and migrations with a destination beyond the continent. 2) Urban life-worlds also include the appropriation of globally circulating images and lifestyles, which contribute substantially to the current cultural dynamics of cities in Africa. These two aspects are the reasons for the high complexity of urban contexts in Africa. Therefore, whether it is still appropriate to speak about the “locality” of these life-worlds has become questionable. At the same time, these new aspects explain the self-consciousness of members of urban cultures in Africa. They contribute to the expansive character of these societies and to the impression that cities in Africa host the most innovative and creative societies worldwide.

scholarly journals Split household and smoking behavior of rural migrants in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zicheng Wang ◽  
Qiushi Wu ◽  
Juan Ming
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Prevalence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lower Lever ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Abstract Background: With Hukou constraints, a large proportion of rural migrants have to leave part of their family members stay at hometown, the split household may induce smoking behavior among rural migrants in destination cites.Objective: This study aims to address association between split household and smoking behavior, while the main discussion is to explore the differences between the three forms of split households---involving sole migration, couple migration, and family migration.Method: A unique and comprehensive database named Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC-2009) is applied to explore the association between split household and the smoking behavior; Analyses are conducted using the Chi-square tests and Logit regression.Results: The prevalence of smoking among family migrants (23.54%) is less than those sole migrants (25.46%) and couple migrants (35.13%). The family migrants (OR= 0.7445; 95% CI= 0.5955, 0.930) and couple migrants (OR= 0.8785; 95% CI= 0.6939, 1.1121) are less prone to smoke than the sole migrants counterparts. The family migrants (Coefficient= -0.0787; CI= -0.1229,-0.0346) and couple migrants (Coefficient= -0.0726; CI= -0.1188,-0.0264) show lower lever of depression compared with the sole migration groups.Conclusions: Split household is positively associated with the smoking behavior of rural migrants. While the depression may play as the potential transmission channel linked the spit household and smoking prevalence.

Rural-Urban Migration, Urban Unemployment and Underemployment, and Job Search Activity in LDCs

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Fields
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Labor Turnover ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Preferential Hiring ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

This chapter analyzes unemployment and underemployment in LDCs within a quantity adjustment framework. Four extensions of the Harris-Todaro model are made, including allowances for more generalized job-search behavior, an urban traditional sector, preferential hiring by educational level, and labor turnover considerations. The result of these modifications is a much lower predicted unemployment rate, which accords more closely with actual observations. Some additional policy implications deriving from the analysis are noted.

scholarly journals Does the policy of rural land rights confirmation promote the transfer of farmland in China?

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hengzhou Xu ◽  
Yihang Zhao ◽  
Ronghui Tan ◽  
Hongchun Yin
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Positive Effects

Land tenure security and land transfer markets are once again a topmost priority in the policy development agenda because of their expected outcomes in terms of equity and efficiency in the rural sector of China. The policy of rural land rights confirmation has been implemented since 2010 to enhance land tenure security and the transferability of farmland. However, only a few studies have been conducted on the effect of rural land rights confirmation on farmland transfer. Therefore, we use household-level survey data from 48 villages across Tianjin City and Shandong Province to explore whether rural land rights confirmation promotes the transfer of farmlands. Our empirical results show that rural land rights confirmation has significant and positive effects on the likelihood and amount of transfer-out land at the 5% significance level, but the effect on transfer-in farmland is insignificant. The results of the study have several policy implications. For instance, the agricultural comparative advantage should be improved through various agricultural subsidy policies. Moreover, the intermediary service network for farmland transfer should be established, and strengthening the non-farm employment skills and improving the non-agricultural employment market are necessary for the rural labour force.

Exploring “North” and “South” in post-Soviet Bishkek: Discourses and perceptions of rural-urban migration

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moya Flynn ◽  
Natalya Kosmarskaya
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Period ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
The City ◽  
North And South ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Post Soviet Period

In this paper we explore, through the narratives and perspectives of “old residents” in post-Soviet Bishkek, the dominant discourse which has emerged towards rural migrants arriving to the city from other areas of Kyrgyzstan from the late Soviet period onwards. We investigate the existence of a primarily “antagonistic” discourse in relation to the migrants and analyze this in detail to understand how it illuminates wider concerns amongst residents about what is occurring in their city, and about wider processes of social change in Kyrgyzstan. The paper provides a revealing insight into the processes of urban change in post-Soviet Central Asia, and demonstrates the ways in which confrontation with the everyday harsh realities of post-Soviet transformation can lead to the negative “othering” of one group of urban residents by another. We also demonstrate how the “old residents”’ perceptions of migrants reveal important insights into emerging notions and constructions of identity in the post-Soviet period, related in this case to understandings of “North” and “South'1 and related concepts of what is “urban” and what is “Kyrgyz”.

Landholding. Rural Fertility and Internal Migration in Developing Countries: Econometric Evidence from Cross-National Data

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Bilsborrow ◽  
C. R. Winegarden
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Section Data ◽  
Econometric Evidence ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Statistical Results ◽  
Cross National

We develop an empirical model of the interaction of rural fertility and rural urban migration which incorporates the effects of landholding patterns. Cross section data for 26 developing countries are used to test the model. The statistical results support the hypothesis of a positive relationship between fertility and out-migration in the rural sector and lend credence to some of the propositions regarding the impact of landholding patterns. A reduced form of the model is derived from the statistical results, and its policy implications are considered.

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