The Residential Environment and Health and Well-Being of Chinese Migrant Populations: A Systematic Review

Huang, Liyan; Said, Rosli; Goh, Hong Ching; Cao, Yu

doi:10.3390/ijerph20042968

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“…Despite these limitations, the present research reinforced the pivotal role of the physical and social environment as a determinant of migrant health (Huang, Said, Goh, & Cao, 2023;Liu, Zhang, Wu, Liu, & Li, 2017). Evidently, place identity and sense of place appear to aid in overcoming migration-related challenges and thus, are worth the time and effort to develop.…”

Section: Limitations and Conclusionsupporting

confidence: 52%

Well-Being of Recent Migrants: The Role of Place-Based and Social Connections

Asokumar

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Place-based and social connections provide a sense of belonging and can act as protective factors against stress. Following migration, disruption to these connections can be particularly challenging when facing migration-related stressors in a new place. As a result, many migrants desire to form new connections, though they often also want to maintain their original connections. It may be beneficial for migrants to find continuity between their former and current place-based and social connections, however, it is unclear how differences between these connections are reconciled. To better understand how migrants bring together former and current connections (or not), a series of mixed methods studies was conducted with recent migrants in Canada to assess the impact of place-based and social connections and how negotiating incompatibilities between former and new connections can strengthen a sense of belonging to new surroundings. Study 1 (N=67), a photovoice study, revealed that positive places provided reminders of home, upheld aspects of pre-migration identity, helped make new connections, and allowed reflection on migration experiences. Although negative places primarily represented challenges, participants often saw the value in these challenges in shaping their migration journey. Essentially, experience in positive and negative places both played a role in shaping place-based and social connections. Study 2 (N=117), a survey study, determined that place identity and social identity mediated the relationships between acculturation strategies with migrant well-being. The relationship between integration with social identity promoted well-being whereas the relationships between assimilation and marginalization with place/social identity appeared to diminish well-being. Study 3 (N=74) involved a controlled, multi-meeting intervention study that targeted the iii development of either place-based or social connections to support post-migration wellbeing. Qualitative analyses suggested that finding balance, reappropriating former connections, making situational adaptations, and relying on connections helped migrants to negotiate incompatibilities between the former and current place. In addition, providing knowledge and skills to manage place-based and social connections appeared to improve post-migration outlook. These studies underscore the potential role of placebased and social connections in resiliency during migration transition and may provide a better understanding of the variability in the incidence of well-being concerns among recent migrants.First and foremost, I want to thank my supervisor and mentor, Dr. Kim Matheson, for her invaluable direction, expertise, and insights throughout this endeavour. I am especially grateful to Dr. Matheson for continuously fostering a balanced work environment, allowing me to pursue both professional and personal goals. I would also like to extend my sincere gratitude to Dr. Hymie Anisman for his unwavering belief in me throughout my graduate studies. Many thanks to Dr. A...

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Section: Limitations and Conclusionsupporting

confidence: 52%

Well-Being of Recent Migrants: The Role of Place-Based and Social Connections

Asokumar

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“…The in uence of living environment on psychological stress and mental health has been well-established, with inadequate housing, crowding, social disorder, violence, and lack of green spaces acting as stressors on people's mental health [29]. According to a recent review, the residential environment of migrant workers in China features marginalized housing conditions, poor neighborhood environments, and residential segregation, which has signi cant impacts on mental health [30]. Finally, parents with low SES tend to lack knowledge and concepts about parenting skills.…”

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Parental rearing skills of rural-to-urban migrants mediate the negative effects of their mental health problems on their children

Wu,

Zhu,

Tan

et al. 2023

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Background Rural-to-urban migration has negative impacts on the mental health of both parents and children. Whether the mental health problems of migrant children are impacted by the mental health problems of their parents has rarely been studied. Methods We investigated 1274 parents and 1001 children aged 9–13 from two primary schools in Hangzhou, one for local children and one for rural-to-urban migrant children in a cross-sectional survey in 2022. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the hypothesis that parents’ rearing skills could mediate the negative effect of parents’ mental health problems on their children. Results The migrant groups, including children, fathers, and mothers, all had higher levels of mental health problems than their urban local counterparts. The difference in the mental health of children can be largely extinguished by socioeconomic status of the family. When mothers had anxiety, children had a higher level of self-blaming tendency (qFDR =0.009) and sensitive tendency (qFDR =0.009). Parental mental health had significant impacts on their rearing skills, with more effects on self-reported than children-reported. Parents’ rearing skills were associated with the mental health of their children, with a stronger association observed for children-reported rearing styles and among urban children. In SEM, emotional warmth and self-confidence were negatively associated with both mothers’ anxiety and children’s anxiety tendency. In contrast, overprotection/over-interference was positively associated. Conclusion More action should be taken to improve the mental health of migrant children. Our findings suggest that a key strategy is to reduce migrant mothers' anxiety symptoms and improve their parenting skills.

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“…Alterations in neighbourhood conditions stemming from residential mobility are also progressively associated with migrant health (Chen et al, 2020). Enhanced neighbourhood environments can boost migrants' mental health by promoting place attachment, social cohesion and local social capital (Huang et al, 2023). A recent study (Ji et al, 2023) in Wuhan examines the intersection of high-rise residential environments and elderly mental health, revealing that accessibility to green spaces significantly impacts mental well-being, mediated by subjective cognition.…”

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Neighbourhoods in shaping migrant integration: A study of peri-urban Beijing

Liu

2023

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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The question of how (im)migrants integrate into their host societies has long been a focus of scholarly research. This article adds to this body of knowledge by examining how different types of neighbourhoods shape the integration experience of migrant residents and their daily practice in peri-urban Beijing. The study was conducted by non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews in four peri-urban Beijing neighbourhoods. The findings suggest that migrant integration has a spatial dimension, with integration differences being enhanced and fixed through residential differentiation. Specifically, a migrant’s position in the urban economy predetermines their integration path and neighbourhood preference, with the neighbourhood further impacting their social integration through embedded lifestyles and ideologies. Neighbourhoods serve as essential places of shared experience in which distinct migrant social groups are formed. Theoretically, the study contributes to the debate between ethnic enclaves and mixed neighbourhoods by arguing that mixed neighbourhoods foster stronger sentiments toward host cities among migrant residents. The failure of integration is not necessarily a result of a neighbourhood’s homogenous tenure and population but rather because residents are not involved in the formal urban economy. Unlike ethnoburbs in America, urban villages in peri-urban Beijing cannot generate upward social mobility because of the informality. Low-skilled migrant entrepreneurs struggle to develop their informal businesses facing unpredictable demolishment of urban villages.

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The Residential Environment and Health and Well-Being of Chinese Migrant Populations: A Systematic Review

Cited by 10 publications

References 106 publications

Well-Being of Recent Migrants: The Role of Place-Based and Social Connections

Well-Being of Recent Migrants: The Role of Place-Based and Social Connections

Parental rearing skills of rural-to-urban migrants mediate the negative effects of their mental health problems on their children

Neighbourhoods in shaping migrant integration: A study of peri-urban Beijing

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