The integration paradox: discrimination, institutional trust, and settlement intention among highly educated mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong and Macao

IF 1.5 4区社会学 Q2 DEMOGRAPHY

Asian Population Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1080/17441730.2022.2078932

N. Cheung, Weining Yao

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the relationships between perceived discrimination, institutional trust, and settlement intention among highly educated domestic migrants by accounting for their structural (educational and economic) positions. Theoretically, this study of Hong Kong and Macao explores the integration paradox, a well-documented perspective on skilled migrants in transnational contexts, and expands it to internal migrant populations. Using respondent-driven sampling, the data include 2,951 highly educated migrants from mainland China to Hong Kong and Macao. The results indicate that a higher educational position in terms of tertiary educational attainment is associated with lower settlement intention among domestic migrants, a finding that tallies with the integration paradox. However, economic position in terms of income bolsters, rather than weakens, settlement intention. Perceived discrimination and institutional trust are evident in mediating the negative effect of tertiary educational attainment on the settlement intention of domestic migrants.

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融合悖论：香港、澳门高学历移民的歧视、制度信任与定居意愿

摘要本研究旨在通过考虑高学历国内移民的结构(教育和经济)地位，探讨其感知歧视、制度信任和定居意愿之间的关系。从理论上讲，本文对香港和澳门的研究探讨了融合悖论，这是跨国背景下技术移民的一个有充分文献记载的视角，并将其扩展到内部移民人口。采用受访者驱动的抽样方法，数据包括2951名受过高等教育的中国大陆移民。结果表明，在高等教育程度方面，较高的教育地位与国内移民较低的定居意愿相关，这一发现与整合悖论相吻合。然而，收入方面的经济地位会增强而不是削弱定居意愿。感知歧视和制度信任在中介高等教育程度对国内移民定居意愿的负面影响方面是明显的。

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Asian Population Studies DEMOGRAPHY-

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3.30

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia, Asian Population Studies publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology.