Housing choices of migrant workers in China: Beyond the Hukou perspective

L Tao, ECM Hui, FKW Wong, T Chen - Habitat International, 2015 - Elsevier
The Hukou system has been increasingly used to explain the housing choices of migrant
workers in China. These workers are not as enthusiastic to transfer their Hukou to the locality …

Responding to the pandemic as a family unit: social impacts of COVID-19 on rural migrants in China and their coping strategies

S Tang, X Li - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has created tremendous chaos in people's daily
lives around the world. However, the related social impacts vary across social groups …

Beyond homeownership: Housing conditions, housing support and rural migrant urban settlement intentions in China

S Xie, J Chen - Cities, 2018 - Elsevier
Housing greatly influences the settlement of both internal and international migrants. Yet
previous studies have paid attention only to the role of homeownership. This study goes …

Residential satisfaction of migrant workers in China: A case study of Shenzhen

L Tao, FKW Wong, ECM Hui - Habitat International, 2014 - Elsevier
The floating population in China has reached 211 million. Most of these people live in
overcrowded rental housing with poor conditions. However, they are not as dissatisfied with …

Whose games? The costs of being “Olympic citizens” in Beijing

HB Shin, B Li - Environment and Urbanization, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Mega-events such as the Olympic Games tend to be accompanied by copious media
coverage of the negative social impacts of these events, and people in the affected areas …

City economic development, housing availability, and migrants' settlement intentions: Evidence from China

M Chen, Y Wu, G Liu, X Wang - Growth and Change, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The slow growth of the permanently settled migrants in host cities poses new challenges for
the sustainability of China's future urbanization. Given the growing importance of …

Intergenerational housing support between retired old parents and their children in urban China

B Li, HB Shin - Urban Studies, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Intergenerational support between parents and children in Chinese cities has been
dramatically affected by recent social changes. This paper investigates the changing pattern …

Residential satisfaction of migrants in Wenzhou, an 'ordinary city'of China

S Lin, Z Li - Habitat international, 2017 - Elsevier
Residential satisfaction is one of the main topics of recent urban studies, yet most focus on a
relatively small group of cities, particularly megacities. This paper uses Wenzhou, China, as …

Real and fake data in Shanghai's informal rental housing market: Groundtruthing data scraped from the internet

JG Harten, AM Kim, JC Brazier - Urban Studies, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
China's planned mega-cities contain hidden, informal housing markets. We analyse
Shanghai's 'group rental'market in which formal commercial and residential units have been …

Spatial mismatch, enclave effects and employment outcomes for rural migrant workers: Empirical evidence from Yunnan Province, China

L Bi, Y Fan, M Gao, CL Lee, G Yin - Habitat International, 2019 - Elsevier
The process of rapid urbanisation in China is causing rural migrant workers to experience
increasing spatial mismatch and enclave effects. In the existing literature, no specific study …