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Urbanization diseconomies in China: roles of temporary migrant workers in foreign direct investment location
This paper investigates whether temporary migrant workers still attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in China nowadays after they played a strong...
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What Drives Migrants Back to Set up Firms? Return-home Entrepreneurial Intention of Rural Migrant Workers in China
The extant literature on international immigrants has discussed migrants’ entrepreneurial activities in the context of Western countries but has paid...
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Migrant Entrepreneurship and Urban Development in Global Cities
In this chapter, we review the current state of knowledge on migrant entrepreneurship including various conceptual frameworks about entrepreneurial...
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Urban Migrant Labor: Public Spaces and Social Integration (Review on Studies in Vietnam)
Urban migration is an indispensable tendency of urbanization. Migrant workers contribute much to the development of cities as well as the welfare of...
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Business Connections of Migrant Entrepreneurs: Finding a Niche in the Diverse City of Amsterdam
Amsterdam is known to be a cosmopolitan and multicultural city where newly arrived migrants find opportunities to test business ideas. Behind every...
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The Social Network of Urban Immigrants
The social network is one of the core concepts in the field of social sciences, and its research path has been elaborated from different perspectives...
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Insights from Migrant Biographies on the Concept of Heimat
In the following, the presentation of the results is oriented along the biography of the participants. It is noteworthy that the factor of time plays...
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The Adaptation and Integration of Urban New Immigrants
Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China has made remarkable achievements in the process of industrialisation and urbanisation....
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The Identity and Community Life of Urban New Immigrants
Although they are both citizens, they have the distinction between “urban new immigrants” and “locals”. This segregation reflects the fact that there...
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An analysis of agglomeration structure for Bei**g, Tian**, and Hebei based on spatial-temporal big data
The Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei integration plan rose to the status of a national-level strategy in 2014. This paper provides a deep analysis of the...
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An empirical study of the registered population transformation in China’s megacities
From 2020 to 2030, accelerating the “citizenization” of the migrant population is key to promoting urbanization and achieving common prosperity. The...
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Characterising Social Integration Between Rural Migrants and Local Residents in Urban China: An Exploratory Social Network Analysis of Care Workers in Shanghai
Recent[aut]Wang, Yiming decades[aut]Zhang, Wen**g have witnessed large migrationMigration flows from rural to urban ChinaChina. This chapter...
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Space reconstruction process and internal driving mechanisms of Taobao villages in metropolitan fringe areas: A case study of Lirendong village in Guangzhou, China
This paper examines the process and internal mechanisms of rural ecommerce industry agglomeration and space reconstruction in metropolitan fringe...
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Rural Development Transformation and Social Governance from the Perspective of Specialization: A Case Study of Ruiling Village in Guangzhou City, China
The reorganization of the global production network and the increased mobility of urban-rural elements have accelerated the differentiation of rural...
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions for COVID-19 and the Health of Vulnerable Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa
The emergence and spread of COVID-19 highlighted the importance of access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Global health officials stressed...
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Investigating Intra-urban Functional Polycentricity from a Linkage Perspective: the Case of Changsha, China
Polycentric urban development has become a prominent phenomenon in China since many cities advocate the strategy by revising spatial planning....
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Redistribution
By examining the process of residential relocation in Chengdu, Part Three draws attention to the lower-income groups concerned in the gentrification...
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The Immigration and Establishment of Urban Immigrants
From the perspective of urban new immigrants, the immigration process is not only a change of location but also a change of social context and norms....
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Climate Migrants in the Dhaka Metropolitan Region: The Process of Livelihood Adaptation
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the impact of climate change, evidence of which seems to be present all over the...
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Analysis of the external attraction of Shanghai urban functions based on the travel characteristics
The external attraction of urban functions refers to the ability of specific urban functional areas to attract foreign populations, which can reflect...
