随着我国进入快速城市化阶段,大量新移民正成为城市常住居民的重要组成部分,该群体的社会融合与地方认同问题备受关注。依据塞缪尔·亨廷顿对地方认同的界定,构建结构方程模型,以广州、杭州、成都、沈阳、东莞、郑州6市的5164份调查问卷为基础,对中国大城市新移民的地方认同进行研究。研究发现,城市新移民正日益分化为劳力型、智力型和投资型移民5类,三大群体的地方认同存在较大差异。就认同机制而言,在个人特征、社会经济属性、制度、住房状况44-测量模型中,年龄、家庭生命周期、移民类型、月收入、户籍、社保状况、住房设施、住房类型等因素对地方认同的影响明显。结构模型分析表明,制度因素、住房因素、社会经济因素对新移民地方认同的直接效应依次递减,而个人特征通过社会经济因素对地方认同产生间接效应。总体而言,虽经多年市场化改革,制度因素仍是影响新移民地方认同乃至城市融入的最重要因素;住房状况对其地方认同的影响也在逐步增强。
China has been experiencing a rapid urbanization, together with a huge wave of migrant population. The migration in China now enters a new period of inter-generational transition. The social inclusion and place identity (PI) of new migrants have become a focus of both academic and public concerns. With a survey on 3,164 copies of questionnaires collected from six large Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Shenyang, Dongguan and Zhengzhou, based on Samuel Huntington's definition of PI, this paper builds a Structure Equation Model (SEM) to examine the feature of PI and its related mechanisms for new migrants in urban China. It is found that new migrants can be divided into three different groups: labor migrants, intellectual migrants and investor migrants. The PIs of different groups are found to be different. In the measurement models, the age, family life cycle, type of migrants, monthly income, household registration, social security status, housing facilities, housing type, etc. are the most important variables. The SEM model analysis indicates that institutional factors, housing factors, and socio-economic factors have direct effects on the PI, while personal characteristics have an indirect effect on the PI. The impacts of institutional factors, housing factors, socio-economic factors and personal characteristics on the PI decrease in sequence. In summary, after three decades of marketization in China, the institutional factors such as Hukou still have strong impacts upon the life of migrants, while the impacts of housing factors are becoming more and more prominent.