9 Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing
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Juan Chen
Abstract
Size of population, sources of population, and distribution of population within the city, according to Park, are the first things we should establish when studying a city. During the past 30 years, the composition of China’s urban population has changed considerably. While studies have focused intensively on migrants who leave rural areas to work in urban centres, this chapter draws attention to a number of other modes of migration also occurring on a major scale in China, including those of urban-to-urban migrants from townships and small cities to large metropolises and in-situ urbanized rural residents who became urbanites because their land was reclassified as urban. Based on two waves of a household survey undertaken in Beijing in 2013 and 2015, our study highlights the effects of the divergent pathways to urban residency on individuals’ subjective well-being.
Abstract
Size of population, sources of population, and distribution of population within the city, according to Park, are the first things we should establish when studying a city. During the past 30 years, the composition of China’s urban population has changed considerably. While studies have focused intensively on migrants who leave rural areas to work in urban centres, this chapter draws attention to a number of other modes of migration also occurring on a major scale in China, including those of urban-to-urban migrants from townships and small cities to large metropolises and in-situ urbanized rural residents who became urbanites because their land was reclassified as urban. Based on two waves of a household survey undertaken in Beijing in 2013 and 2015, our study highlights the effects of the divergent pathways to urban residency on individuals’ subjective well-being.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of Tables and Figures v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Acknowledgments xii
- Preface xiii
- Robert Park in China 1
- “Bewitched by the History Behind the Walls” 17
- Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City 41
- Learning from Chicago (and LA)? 61
- From Chicago to Shenzhen, via Birmingham 81
- Urbanization and Economic Development 101
- The Handshake 302 Village Hack Residency 125
- Beijing Ring Roads and the Poetics of Excess and Ordinariness 141
- Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing 157
- A Study of Socio-spatial Segregation of Rural Migrants in Shenzhen 185
- The Anxious Middle Class of Urban China 207
- Conclusion 231
- Index 247
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of Tables and Figures v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Acknowledgments xii
- Preface xiii
- Robert Park in China 1
- “Bewitched by the History Behind the Walls” 17
- Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City 41
- Learning from Chicago (and LA)? 61
- From Chicago to Shenzhen, via Birmingham 81
- Urbanization and Economic Development 101
- The Handshake 302 Village Hack Residency 125
- Beijing Ring Roads and the Poetics of Excess and Ordinariness 141
- Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing 157
- A Study of Socio-spatial Segregation of Rural Migrants in Shenzhen 185
- The Anxious Middle Class of Urban China 207
- Conclusion 231
- Index 247
