Social Exclusion and Young Rural-Urban Migrants’ Integration into a Host Society in China

Juhua Yang

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2013, vol. 648, issue 1, 52-69

Abstract: This article explores correlates of the socioeconomic integration of young rural-urban migrants in a host society in China. Using a new typology that distinguishes hukou (household registration system), migration status, and age, multilevel modeling results indicate that young rural-urban migrants achieve a lower socioeconomic status than local youths and urban-urban migratory youths. This challenges the notion that marketization necessarily promotes rights and legal equality in a linear fashion and suggests that the potentially positive impact of migration on personal development might be compromised by institutional constraints (e.g., hukou ) that exclude migrants from rural areas, as well as other outsiders, particularly youths.

Keywords: rural-urban migrants; urban-urban migrants; socioeconomic status; Hukou system; social exclusion; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716213482441

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