Social Integration of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Current Status, Determinants and Consequences

This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers. The book provides an updated, systematic, empirically rich, and multifaceted analysis of migrant integration, its determinants and consequences in China. It integrates insights from the perspective of sociology, population studies, social psychology, and public health to help us understand how and why migrants integrate, the role of migrant networks in social integration, and the relationship between integration of migrants and their mental health and settlement intentions.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Concept Construction, Operationalization, and Current Status of Social Integration of Rural–Urban Migrants
• Migrant Network and Social Integration: A Migrant–Resident Tie Perspective
• Social Integration and Mental Health
• Social Integration and Intentions of Rural–Urban Migrants
• Conclusions and Perspectives

Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, professionals and policy makers interested in social integration of rural-urban migrant workers in China, and China's modernization.
Key Features:

• Provides a grassroots perspective for researchers and the general public to understand China's development
• Conducts a new, comprehensive multidimensional analysis of social integration of rural-urban migrant workers
• Offers predictions as to how millions of migrants will integrate socially and economically into the urban setting