Drivers of housing choice among rural-to-urban migrants: evidence from Taiyuan

Li, Bingqin; Duda, Mark; An, Xiangsheng

doi:10.1080/17516230903027898

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“…From the same perspective, Hui, Zhong, and Yu (2012) examined the workeresidence matching of new immigrants in Hong Kong. Li, Duda, and An (2009) argued that the transitional economic contexts and the characteristics of individual migration could exert a greater influence on the housing providers and cost of migrants than the conventional factors in Taiyuan, China. In terms of settlement intentions, Lin and Zhu (2010) examined the diversified housing demands of ruraleurban migrants for housing security policies in Fuzhou, China and revealed that only a small proportion of these migrants intended to settle down in the locality.…”

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Housing choices of migrant workers in China: Beyond the Hukou perspective

Hui

Wong

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Habitat International

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Housing choices of migrant workers in China: Beyond the Hukou perspective

Hui

Wong

et al. 2015

Habitat International

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“…How important is hukou? ", Landlines LLA080 104, pages 14-19; Jiang, L (2006), "Living conditions of the floating population in urban China", Housing Studies Vol 21, pages 719-744; Li, B, M Duda and X An (2009), "Drivers of housing choice among ruralto-urban migrants: evidence from Taiyuan", Journal of Asian Public Policy Vol 2, No 2, pages Sometimes, when it is difficult for an employee to find a decent house in a poor country, the employer may build suitable accommodation for them. Sometimes, when the cost of housing in the destination is too high for an employee to afford, the employer may also provide it.…”

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Employers as landlords for rural-to-urban migrants in Chinese cities

Duda²

2010

Environment and Urbanization

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In Chinese cities, employer-provided housing has played an important part in accommodating low-income, rural-to-urban migrants. Employer housing is often used to study other problems such as management style or worker psychology. In this paper we intend to examine employer-provided housing for its own sake. We use two surveys in the cities of Taiyuan and Tianjin in China to understand the reasons why Chinese employers want to provide housing for employees, the conditions of this type of housing and whether workers are satisfied with it. In doing so, we may identify areas that suffer from serious market failure and will discuss possible solutions to the problems.

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“…Likewise, migrants who enter the urban village are assumed to take on the urban village's non‐place qualities, losing their historical identity and connections, their ability to build a local identity or attachment, as well as their relational socio‐spatial position in regard to possible integration into urban society. This dominant representation (Kochan, ), and the difficulty of initiating spatial restructuring because of the land ownership structure, strengthens the perception of migrants' urban temporality and indifference to their housing and physical conditions (Li et al ., ) or, for that matter, anything beyond their immediate economic goals. The demolition of urban villages further reinforces the image of migrant ‘others' as temporal floaters, who may be pushed away spatially to other urban villages, thus enhancing socio‐spatial segregation.…”

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Placing the Urban Village: A Spatial Perspective on the Development Process of Urban Villages in Contemporary China

Kochan

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The rapid urbanization of China since the mid‐1980s has led to the development of a new spatial category, the urban village (chengzhongcun). The dominant neoliberal urban development regime approaches urban villages as a social, spatial, economic and political problem, and as targets for aggressive redevelopment and eradication policies. In this article, I propose a spatial perspective that makes use of several theoretical ‘anchors' to analyze the influence of urban village spatiality on its development process and to explore alternatives to the dominant redevelopment model. I begin by examining the spatial conceptualization of the urban village as a non‐place, arguing that this spatial reading undergirds the redevelopment‐by‐demolition model and tends to obscure alternative conceptualizations. I then move on to propose three alternative readings of urban village space, examining it as an everyday space, a liminal space and a neighborhood. Combining these three readings with the ‘non‐place' conceptualization provides a nuanced understanding of urban villages' unique spatial attributes and social roles, by evoking spatial and social processes that take place in most urban villages across China. Taken together, these spatial readings challenge the social and spatial rigidity of dominant representations of urban villages and supply a much‐needed spatially based conceptual framework that can be used to develop new urban planning models.

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Drivers of housing choice among rural-to-urban migrants: evidence from Taiyuan

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Housing choices of migrant workers in China: Beyond the Hukou perspective

Housing choices of migrant workers in China: Beyond the Hukou perspective

Employers as landlords for rural-to-urban migrants in Chinese cities

Placing the Urban Village: A Spatial Perspective on the Development Process of Urban Villages in Contemporary China

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