Intergroup neighbouring in urban China: Implications for the social integration of migrants

Urban Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 651-668

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Zhang, Fangzhu ^a   Wu, Fulong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese neighbourhoods; housing types; intergroup neighbouring; migrants; social integration

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; HOUSING CONDITIONS; IMMIGRANT; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL INCLUSION; URBAN SOCIETY;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 84956585179     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014568068     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. G.BramleyN.DempseyS.Power. (2009) Social sustainability and urban form: Evidence from five British cities. Environment and Planning A41(9): 2125–2142.
2. A.BuonfinoP.Hilder (2006) Neighbouring in Contemporary Britain: A Think-Piece for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Housing and Neighbourhoods Committee (pdf). York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Available at: www.jrf.org.uk/publications/neighbouring-contemporary-britain-think-piece-joseph-rowntree-foundation-housing-and-ne (accessed 10 January 2014).
3. X.ChenB.StantonL.Kaljee. (2011) Social stigma, social capital reconstruction, and rural migrants in urban China: A population health perspective. Human Organization70(1): 22–32.
4. H.DuS.M.Li (2010) Migrants, urban villages, and community sentiments: A case of Guangzhou, China. Asian Geographer27(1–2): 93–108.
5. C.C.Fan (2002) The elite, the natives, and the outsiders: Migration and labor market segmentation in urban China. Annals of the Association of American Geographers92(1): 103–124.
6. R.ForrestA.Kearns (2001) Social cohesion, social capital and the neighbourhood. Urban Studies38(12): 2125–2143.
7. R.ForrestN.M.Yip (2007) Neighbourhood and neighbouring in contemporary Guangzhou. Journal of Contemporary China16(50): 47–64.
8. J.Friedmann (2006) Four theses in the study of China’s urbanization. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research30(2): 440–451.
9. A.S.Fullerton (2009) A conceptual framework for ordered logistic regression models. Sociological Methods and Research38(2): 306–347.
10. E.L.GlaeserB.Sacerdote (2000) The social consequences of housing. Journal of Housing Economics9(1–2): 1–23.
11. D.GoodkindL.A.West (2002) China’s floating population: Definitions, data and recent findings. Urban Studies39(12): 2237–2250.
12. M.S.Granovetter (1973) The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology78(6): 1360–1380.
13. S.D.Greenbaum (1982) Bridging ties at the neighborhood level. Social Networks4(4): 367–384.
14. A.M.GuestS.K.Wierzbicki (1999) Social ties at the neighborhood level: Two decades of GSS evidence. Urban Affairs Review35(1): 92–111.
15. A.M.GuestC.E.KubrinJ.K.Cover (2008) Heterogeneity and harmony: Neighbouring relationships among Whites in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in Seattle. Urban Studies45(3): 501–526.
16. C.HenningM.Lieberg (1996) Strong ties or weak ties? Neighbourhood networks in a new perspective. Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research13(1): 3–26.
17. A.KanasF.Van TubergenT.Van der Lippe (2011) The role of social contacts in the employment status of immigrants: A panel study of immigrants in Germany. International Sociology26(1): 95–122.
18. A.KearnsM.Parkinson (2001) The significance of neighbourhood. Urban Studies38(12): 2103–2110.
19. K.King (2013) Jane Jacobs and ‘the need for aged buildings’: Neighbourhood historical development pace and community social relations. Urban Studies50(12): 2407–2424.
20. B.A.LeeK.E.CampbellO.Miller (1991) Racial differences in urban neighboring. Sociological Forum6(3): 525–550.
21. N.Letki (2008) Does diversity erode social cohesion? Social capital and race in British neighbourhoods. Political Studies56(1): 99–126.
22. S.M.LiY.ZhuL.Li (2012) Neighborhood type, gatedness, and residential experiences in Chinese cities: A study of Guangzhou. Urban Geography33(2): 237–255.
23. Z.LiF.Wu (2013a) Residential satisfaction in China’s informal settlements: A case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Urban Geography34(7): 923–949.
24. Z.LiF.Wu (2013b) Migrant integration in China’s urban villages: A case study of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In: (eds) Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism. London: Routledge, pp. 121–144.
25. Y.LiuF.Wu (2006) Urban poverty neighbourhoods: Typology and spatial concentration under China’s market transition, a case study of Nanjing. Geoforum37(4): 610–626.
26. Y.LiuS.HeF.Wu (2008) Urban pauperization under China’s social exclusion: A case study of Nanjing. Journal of Urban Affairs30(1): 21–36.
27. Y.LiuZ.LiW.Breitung (2012) The social networks of new-generation migrants in China’s urbanized villages: A case study of Guangzhou. Habitat International36(1): 192–200.
28. Z.LiuY.WangR.Tao (2013) Social capital and migrant housing experiences in urban China: A structural equation modeling analysis. Housing Studies28(8): 1155–1174.
29. J.R.Logan (2011) Urban China in Transition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
30. J.R.LoganG.D.Spitze (1994) Family neighbors. American Journal of Sociology100(2): 453–476.
31. A.MiddletonA.MurieR.Groves (2005) Social capital and neighbourhoods that work. Urban Studies42(10): 1711–1738.
32. Nanjing Statistical Bureau (2006) Nanjing Statistical Yearbook 2006. Beijing: China Statistics Press.
33. P.NannestadG.L.H.SvendsenG.T.Svendsen (2008) Bridge over troubled water? Migration and social capital. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies34(4): 607–631.
34. R.V.PatulnyA.Morris (2012) Questioning the need for social mix: The implications of friendship diversity amongst Australian social housing tenants. Urban Studies49(15): 3365–3384.
35. S.Petermann (2014). Neighbourhoods and municipalities as contextual opportunities for interethnic contact. Urban Studies51(6): 1214–1235.
36. C.P.Pow (2007) Securing the ‘civilised’ enclaves: Gated communities and the moral geographies of exclusion in (post-)socialist Shanghai. Urban Studies44(8): 1539–1558.
37. R.D.Putnam (2001) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
38. R.D.Putnam (2007) E pluribus unum: Diversity and community in the twenty-first century. The 2006 Johan Skytte prize lecture. Scandinavian Political Studies30(2): 137–174.
39. E.Talen (1999) Sense of community and neighbourhood form: An assessment of the social doctrine of new urbanism. Urban Studies36(8): 1361–1379.
40. R.Van KempenA.şule Özüekren (1998) Ethnic segregation in cities: New forms and explanations in a dynamic world. Urban Studies35(10): 1631–1656.
41. M.Vervoort (2012) Ethnic concentration in the neighbourhood and ethnic minorities’ social integration weak and strong social ties examined. Urban Studies49(4): 897–915.
42. B.WangX.LiB.Stanton. (2010) The influence of social stigma and discriminatory experience on psychological distress and quality of life among rural-to-urban migrants in China. Social Science & Medicine71(1): 84–92.
43. G.WangJ.ShenJ.Liu (2008) Zhongguo chengshi nongming gong shimin hua yanjiu (Researching the ‘urbanizing’ of migrant workers in urban China). Population and Development (Renkou Yu Fazhan)1: 71–95 (in Chinese).
44. W.W.WangC.C.Fan (2012) Migrant workers’ integration in urban China: Experiences in employment, social adaptation, and self-identity. Eurasian Geography and Economics53(6): 731–749.
45. B.WissinkA.HazeletW.Breitung (2013) Migrant integration in China: Evidence from Guangzhou. In: (eds) Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism. London: Routledge, pp. 99–120.
46. F.Wu (2012) Neighborhood attachment, social participation, and willingness to stay in China’s low-income communities. Urban Affairs Review48(4): 547–570.
47. F.WuS.He (2005) Changes in traditional urban areas and impacts of urban redevelopment: A case study of three neighbourhoods in Nanjing, China. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie96(1): 75–95.
48. F.WuF.ZhangC.Webster (2013) Informality and the development and demolition of urban villages in the Chinese peri-urban area. Urban Studies50(10): 1919–1934.
49. Q.XuX.GuanF.Yao (2011) Welfare program participation among rural-to-urban migrant workers in China. International Journal of Social Welfare20(1): 10–21.
50. Z.YueS.LiW.M.Feldman. (2010) Floating choices: A generational perspective on intentions of rural–urban migrants in China. Environment and Planning A42(3): 545–562.
51. Z.YueS.LiX.Jin. (2013) The role of social networks in the integration of Chinese rural–urban migrants: A migrant–resident tie perspective. Urban Studies50(9): 1704–1723.
52. Y.ZhuW.BreitungS.Li (2011) The changing meaning of neighbourhood attachment in Chinese commodity housing estates: Evidence from Guangzhou. Urban Studies49(11): 2434–2457.