Migration, mobility, and community change in Chinese cities: introducing the special issue

Li, Si Ming; Chan, Kam Wing; He, Shenjing

doi:10.1080/15387216.2015.1019906

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“…Thachil (this volume) notes that the seasonal migrant population is estimated to exceed 100 million people in India alone. China is home to a similarly large "floating population" of migrant laborers; of the estimated 750 million city dwellers in China, approximately 250 million lack the registration (hukou) that allows for legal urban employment and residence (Li, Chan, & He, 2014). Sub-Saharan African countries also exhibit robust circular migration between cities and rural areas (e.g., Ferguson, 1999;Potts, 2011).…”

Section: B Social and Institutional Complexity Under Urban Informalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

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Contemporary urbanization in the Global South merits greater attention from scholars of comparative politics. Governance, associational life, and political behavior take on distinctive forms in the social and institutional environments created by rapid urbanization, particularly within informal settlements and informal labor markets. In this special issue, we examine forms of collective action and claims-making in these spaces. We also consider how the state assesses, maps, and responds to the demands of informal sector actors. Tackling questions of citizen and state behavior in these informal urban contexts requires innovative research strategies due to data scarcity and social and institutional complexity. Contributors to this symposium explicate novel strategies for addressing these challenges, including the use of informal archives, worksite-based sampling, ethnographic survey design, enforcement process-tracing, and crowd-sourced data.Acknowledgments:

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Section: B Social and Institutional Complexity Under Urban Informalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

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“…Most migrant patients in this study came from rural areas, which is to some extent related to the trend of rural residents migrating to urban to seek more employment opportunities after the reform and opening policy implemented in China in 1978 (32). Interestingly, it was found that more than 80% of the sample patients had suffered from schizophrenia before current migration, which suggested that many people with severe mental illness still hope to participate in society and gain some form of employment (33,34).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Migration, Schizophrenia, and Crime: A Study From a Forensic Psychiatric Sample

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundThe association between mental health problems and crime in immigrants has attracted recent academic interest, with results suggesting that there were possible interactions between immigration, schizophrenia, and criminal behavior. However, very few studies have examined these interactions, especially in developing countries that have mass internal immigration. Therefore, this study sought to identify the associations between the sociodemographic, clinical, and criminal factors in migrants and non-migrants with schizophrenia who had been involved in criminal activities in China.MethodsForensic archives of suspects who had been referred for criminal responsibility assessments in the Sichuan West China Forensic Center from January 2015 to December 2019 were reviewed. The sociodemographic, and criminal activity information of the suspects were extracted, while the clinical and social function were measured by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and Social Disability Screening Schedule (SDSS) based on the archives. A Chi-squared test, a T-test, a Mann-Whitney U test, and Multinomial logistic regression were employed for the statistical analysis.ResultsA total of 552 patients were reviewed and evaluated, 17.2% (n = 95) of which were migrants. The migrant patient group was younger than the non-migrant patient group. The BPRS and SDSS scores for the migrant patient group were lower than for the non-migrant patient group. The migrant patient group had more work experience and more had been employed at the time of the crime than the non-migrant patient group. The unemployed migrant patients were more likely to commit a property-related crime.ConclusionsCompared to the non-migrant schizophrenia patient group, the migrant patient group had less severe psychiatric symptoms and less social function impairments. Employment was an important factor in preventing criminality in patients with schizophrenia, especially for migrant patients. Vocational rehabilitation focuses on developing appropriate employment that can significantly assist in schizophrenia patient recovery, which in turn could reduce their chances of committing crime. Besides, reducing other obstacles to stigma, housing and health insurance would also be beneficial to crime reduction.

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“…197 A new policy is expected to relax the Hukou system in medium-sized and small-sized cities but continue to strictly control it in the large cities where most migrants congregate. 198 The existence of different types of health insurance in urban China also adds to health inequity. The two major state-run medical insurance programmes-Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance and Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance-increase inequalities in out patient utilisation but reduce pro-rich Population below the minimum living standard for cities (per 10 000 people)…”

Section: Health Inequitymentioning

confidence: 99%