Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
College of Management, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 9;18(24):12983. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182412983.
The social integration in host cities of China's migrant population and its determinants has received much attention from researchers. However, few have directly addressed the family migration in differentiating migrants' social integration. This study employs descriptive statistics and multivariate regression to explore the social integration across different family migration types, based on the data of China Migrants Dynamic Survey 2013 and 2017 in Wuhan metropolitan area. The findings show that the family migration in Wuhan metropolitan area is prevalent, and the central city Wuhan has advantages both in the proportion of whole-family migration and the scores of migrants' social integration. In addition, the migrants' family migration is significantly positively associated with their social integration, but the effect is variance in the regression models of social integration's four dimensions. The findings reveal the Wuhan City's leading position in promoting migrants' social integration within the Wuhan metropolitan area. Furthermore, migration with more family members has higher levels of integration in economy and public service. This implies that the convenience provided by inflow cities' government for family migration is crucial. To provide high-quality public services is of great significance to attract and retain migrants and then promote their overall social integration.
中国流动人口在流入地的社会融合及其决定因素一直受到研究人员的关注。然而，很少有人直接研究家庭迁移对移民社会融合的影响。本研究利用描述性统计和多元回归方法，基于中国流动人口动态监测调查 2013 年和 2017 年在武汉都市圈的数据，探讨了不同家庭迁移类型下的社会融合情况。研究结果表明，武汉都市圈的家庭迁移较为普遍，中心城市武汉在举家迁移比例和移民社会融合得分方面都具有优势。此外，移民的家庭迁移与他们的社会融合显著正相关，但这种效应在社会融合四个维度的回归模型中存在差异。研究结果揭示了武汉市在促进武汉都市圈移民社会融合方面的领先地位。此外，家庭成员较多的迁移在经济和公共服务方面的融合程度更高。这意味着流入城市政府为家庭迁移提供的便利性至关重要。提供高质量的公共服务对于吸引和留住移民，进而促进他们的整体社会融合具有重要意义。
