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地理研究 2001
Internal population migration in China since the economic reforms: A review
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Abstract:
This paper reviews the process and researches on internal population migration in China since the economic reforms from 3aspects. They are the changes in migration process;the main reasons, choices and patterns of migration, migration and gender difference, migration and urbanization;and the participation and impression of migrants to city's economic and social life. The internal migration process in China since the economic reforms can be divided into 4 periods. The most important reason for migration is the difference of employment opportunities induced by regional economic disparities. The main migration pattern is through self organized network. Population migration has accelerated the process of urbanization. Migrants have become important part of urban labor market. But the temporary migrants in cities make them in weak status and difficult to dissolve into city life. This situation is unfavorable to the whole process of migration and urbanization in China. Large amount of positive researches give us a more and more clear knowledge to China's internal population migration, but most researches still remain within the frame of foreign country's theories. The author thinks that more researches in the following 4 fields are needed: the relation of population migration and the proceed of Hukou (registered residence)system reform, the relation of migration and the employment of urban citizens, the relation of migration and the industrial adjustment, the affection of temporary migrants to the comparing analysis of social and economic differences.