The migration destination of rural labor and nearby urbanization of small cities: a case study of Henan province, China

Fan, Xing; Xiang, Huali

doi:10.1080/23754931.2020.1723678

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“…These studies often start with household homeownership or the willingness of migrants to purchase housing to analyse their intention to move or stay (Fang and Zhang, 2016; Song and Zhang, 2019). Some scholars also carried out surveys in counties or small cities to analyse the possibility of destination choice (Fan and Xiang, 2020; Wang and Fan, 2006). Return migration has been observed, though of limited scale (Zhao, 2002) and the phenomenon has become more predominant in recent years (National Health Commission of China (NHCC), 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system

Yeh

Zhang

et al. 2021

Urban Studies

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Internal migration is critically important in China, where the fertility rate is declining and international immigration is under strict control. This study explores the massive population movement in China, examines the migration pattern of non- hukou migrants, 2010–2015 and 2014–2015 migration patterns through the urban hierarchy of the urban system using migration trajectories derived from the 2015 One Percent Population Sample Survey. Results reveal an emerging reversal from a predominantly upward pattern (e.g. most of the net flows move to high-level cities) to a downward one (e.g. from super-large/extra-large cities to large cities) in the recent migration trend. Regional disparities are significant. An upward and eastward tendency still dominates in the western, central and northeastern regions, whereas a downward and decentralised tendency has been initiated in the eastern region. The causes for the structural change include common factors found in developed countries, such as the influence of age and life courses. The age structure of China’s population caused by the ‘one-child’ policy weakened the upward momentum and led to a strengthening downward trend in the current migration pattern. The contextual and institutional factor hukou also has a significant effect on people’s migration directions. Hukou attracts people to move up or down the hierarchy to their registered place or where they can acquire registration. The characteristics of registered migrants reflect the different criteria of cities in granting hukou.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system

Yeh

Zhang

et al. 2021

Urban Studies

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“…Scholars had different views on the impact of city size on migrations. Some saw larger cities as more attractive [50] and others saw smaller cities as more attractive [51]. Destination city sizes were divided into four categories according to population sizes.…”

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Exploring the Climate Temperature Effects on Settlement Intentions of Older Migrants: Evidence from China

Wang

Gao

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Permanent migration across provinces in China has become an important strategy for Chinese older people to respond to a temperature-unfriendly place of residence in late life. However, the relation between temperature effects and permanent settlements of older migrants remains unclear. Based on the data obtained from China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper examined how four temperature effects (i.e., cold effect, heat effect, temperature gap effect, and temperature zone effect) play a role in shaping older migrants’ intentions to settle permanently in a destination place by conducting logistic regression analysis. Our findings show that: (1) extreme cold (rather than extreme heat or mild temperature) was found to have significant effects on settlement intentions of older people; (2) relative winter temperature between origin and destination places rather than absolute winter temperature in the destination place has a significant positive effect on the settlement intentions; (3) spatially, older migrants tend to migrate to geographically adjacent temperature zones. Our findings will inform a more effective planning and allocation of services for supporting older people by better understanding trends and intentions of older migrants.

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“…The size of the city also plays a role in a person's decision to move and choose a destination ( 14 ). Some scholars have suggested that large cities have the highest attractivity ( 15 ), while others hold the opposite opinion ( 16 ). Regardless, the natural conditions of a place are fundamental to its character and attributes.…”

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Environmental health, economy, and amenities interactively drive migration patterns among China's older people

Wang,

Gao,

Liu

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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The increasing number of older adult migrants is rapidly changing regional demographic and social structures in China. There is an urgent need to understand the spatial patterns and factors that influence older adults to migrate, especially the role of environmental health. However, this issue has been under-studied. This study focused on intra-provincial and inter-provincial older adult migrants as research subjects, estimated their spatial concentration index based on the iterative proportional fitting approach, and explored the factors influencing their migration using the GeoDetector Model. The results showed the following: (1) In 2015, more than 76% of inter-provincial older adult migrants were distributed in Eastern China, and most intra-provincial older adult migrants were scattered in sub-provincial cities. (2) Compared to factors relating to economy and amenities, environmental health by itself played a relatively weak role in the migration of older adults, but the interaction among environmental health, economy, and amenities was a key driving force of older adult migration. (3) There were significant differences in the dominant environmental health factors between inter-provincial migration and intra-provincial migration, which were temperature and altitude, respectively. Our findings can help policymakers focus on the composition of older adult migrants based on urban environmental health characteristics and rationally optimize older adult care facilities to promote supply-demand matching.

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The migration destination of rural labor and nearby urbanization of small cities: a case study of Henan province, China

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system

Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system

Exploring the Climate Temperature Effects on Settlement Intentions of Older Migrants: Evidence from China

Environmental health, economy, and amenities interactively drive migration patterns among China's older people

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