Authors:
Xiaoning Zhu
;
Jun Liu
and
Tingting Li
Affiliation:
School of Public Administration, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China
Keyword(s):
Social Exclusion, Urban Household Migration, Social Inclusion, Housing Inequality.
Abstract:
With the prelude of the "people war" in major cities, various settlement policies have attracted numerous talents with higher education to settle in cities and become the population with the city’s household registration, which we can call household migrants. At present, most of the studies on migrants in China focus on the mobile population, and less on this part of people who are screened and left behind by the city as elites. Housing has a certain significance for immigrants, and can be said to be one of the more important issues in the process of urban integration, housing not only solves the major problem of living, more importantly, it contains the sentiment of home. Therefore, owning a set of their own house has become the goal of many immigrants to fight for, and household immigrants, as a member of the immigrant army, are no exception. Household immigrants, as elites screened out by the city, have an advantage in the labor market and an advantage in income, does this mean th
at they will have a smoother integration process in the city? An analysis of microdata from the General Social Survey verifies that even for household migrants, they may not have an advantage in acquiring housing because urban housing prices have continued to rise over the years and it is increasingly difficult for urban latecomers to obtain housing, coupled with the intergenerational inheritance nature of housing. In other words, for household migrants, there is a situation of housing exclusion in the process of urban integration.
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