Javier San Millán, Clémentine Cottineau‐Mugadza, Maarten Van Ham
{"title":"From Flux to Capital: Distinguishing Patterns of Income and Wealth Segregation in the Netherlands","authors":"Javier San Millán, Clémentine Cottineau‐Mugadza, Maarten Van Ham","doi":"10.1002/psp.70127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70127","url":null,"abstract":"Who are “the rich” and how should their residential patterns be studied? In society, the rich are defined not only by their high income but also—and perhaps more importantly—by their high wealth. However, while income is closely monitored and taxed, wealth often remains less scrutinised, particularly in the context of residential segregation research. This study explores how the spatial patterns of affluence and poverty differ when considering wealth versus income and discusses their implications. By analyzing geo‐coded microdata from the Netherlands, we reveal that wealth segregation is much higher than income segregation, and that roughly the top tenth richest households in terms of wealth are far more spatially isolated from the rest of the population than what the income‐based literature would suggest. Our findings also demonstrate three other key insights: (1) Whereas financial wealth is more unequally distributed than real estate wealth <jats:italic>across society</jats:italic>, it is more equally distributed <jats:italic>across space</jats:italic>. (2) Wealth segregation is notably more sensitive to the spatial scale of measurement compared to income segregation. (3) The temporal trends of income and wealth segregation diverge: while the former is decreasing in most urban areas, wealth segregation is rising almost everywhere in the Netherlands. This stresses the necessity of incorporating wealth into studies of segregation not as an alternative operationalization, but as a different perspective on the spatial concentration of capital which captures the role of social class, age and migration in a way that income‐based approaches cannot render.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145305818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recentring Intimacy in Hopping (Im)mobilities of Academic Precarity","authors":"Ieva Puzo, Aija Lulle","doi":"10.1002/psp.70132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70132","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces the notion of ‘hopping (im)mobilities’, referring to relatively short‐term relocations—socially and geographically—within neoliberal academia. The data is drawn from two research projects focused on mobile researchers making Latvia and Japan their more permanent place. Our fieldwork reveals that researchers’ affective ties play a central role in place‐making. Whilst career progression and achievements matter for welfare and subjective wellbeing, we argue that recentring intimacy—connections to people and places—serves as a valuable analytical device that sheds light on the constitutive role of relationships in producing spaces, including academic knowledge spaces, and invites to pose much broader questions about the entrenched epistemologies of Western knowledge hubs, perceived undesirable peripheries and place from the standpoints of researchers themselves.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tineke Reitsma, Femke D. Cnossen, Tialda Haartsen, Bettina B. Bock
{"title":"Leaving for Good or Coming Back? Identifying Long‐Term Internal Migration Trajectories of Rural Young Adults in the Netherlands","authors":"Tineke Reitsma, Femke D. Cnossen, Tialda Haartsen, Bettina B. Bock","doi":"10.1002/psp.70130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70130","url":null,"abstract":"To counteract the effects of young adult out‐migration, rural areas are increasingly interested in whether leavers return, and when and why they do so. However, little is known about their migration trajectories after departure. Their out‐migration is often studied as a one‐time event, even though it marks the start of a dynamic life phase with numerous events that potentially lead to residential relocations. To capture long‐term migration trajectories, we provide a more nuanced picture of rural young adult migration by following their residential trajectories from age 17 to 35, using longitudinal register data from Statistics Netherlands. We reveal five common migration patterns after leaving: (1) return migrants, (2) repeat leavers, (3) late leavers, (4) onward migrants, (5) one‐time migrants, alongside a group of non‐migrants: (6) stayers. Partnering with someone from the same area of origin increases the likelihood of return, whereas having a partner from elsewhere is linked to continued migration. Men are more likely to be late leavers or stayers; (applied) university graduates are more likely to have more mobile trajectories; and parenthood raises the likelihood of return migration, repeat leaving, or late leaving, while lowering the likelihood of one‐time migration. Our focus on long‐term trajectories reveals that over half of rural young adult leavers have returned to the rural by age 35. This shows that by and large not all out‐migrants leave the rural for good and suggests that return migrants are a valuable group to target when addressing rural youth out‐migration.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145305819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does International Mobility Pay Off? Comparing Labour Market Success of Recent German Remigrants and the German Stayer Population","authors":"Antonia Görtz","doi":"10.1002/psp.70121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70121","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents analysis of German remigrants' individual labour market success. Whereas some authors stress that remigration is associated with failure of emigration, other researchers underscore that remigrants' careers could benefit from their international experiences. Two questions are examined: First, does international experience pay off in terms of labour market success? Second, does remigrants' labour market success depend on other social factors? To answer these questions, German remigrants and the German stayer population are compared regarding wages, occupational status and unemployment risk. Thus, not only employment conditions are analysed, but also labour market participation. Based on data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) and German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), regressions are estimated. Results indicate that compared to stayers, German remigrants generally benefit in terms of wages and partly in terms of occupational status. Social inequalities can be reduced through international mobility for individuals with non‐German origins and for non‐graduated remigrants, but are reinforced regarding gender.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decoding Migration Capability: (Im)Mobility Decision‐Making in the Ukrainian Population","authors":"Renáta Hosnedlová, Iryna Maidanik","doi":"10.1002/psp.70128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70128","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the spatial and temporal dimensions of im/mobility within the population of western Ukraine. It challenges the typical focus on receiving countries by examining both the capabilities and motivations for staying in Ukraine or considering emigration. Based on data from 1242 individual questionnaires collected in a pre‐invasion survey in western Ukraine, this study provides a comparative analysis of return migrants and non‐migrants, examining the relationship between past migration experience and the likelihood of future (im)mobility. We construct a novel migration capability scale that situates migration capability along a continuum and offers a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of place‐based decision‐making (grounded in the fulfilment of basic economic needs, transnational social ties, risk attitude, and foreign language proficiency). Only 11% of respondents reported having no migration potential, while those with the highest migration capabilities ‐ including both returnees and non‐migrants ‐ were often undecided about their future mobility. Regression analyses show that past migration experience enhances migration capability, yet decision‐making is ultimately influenced by personal motivations, socio‐demographic factors, and the evolving relationship between population and place. These findings have important implications for migration policy and spatial planning.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145288238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reexamining the Impact of Locations on Leaving the Parental Home and Choosing New Locations: Evidence From a New Joint Choice Model","authors":"Yusi Luo, Ling Li, Ying Jin","doi":"10.1002/psp.70125","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70125","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Previous models for leaving the parental home mainly focus on the influence of local factors while overlooking how opportunities and costs associated with living outside the local area influence the decision to leave. To address this gap, this paper develops a new joint model with a two-tier nested logit structure for young people's decisions to remain at home or leave, as well as to choose subsequent residential destinations. This model accounts for young people's trade-offs between various location factors in both their parents’ residences and different alternative destinations based on their Socioeconomic circumstances and family backgrounds. Using data from the Understanding Society, we employ an approximate estimation techinique to estimate this model with sampling of alternatives. The results confirm the effectiveness of the model in quantifying the decision-making process and align closely with migration theory. Specifically, job opportunities in nonlocal areas encourage both graduates and non-graduates to leave home and migrate there, while housing costs pose a barrier for non-graduates but not for graduates. This model can be employed by future studies to enhance investigations into the interaction between locations and home-leaving behaviours, as well as to examine the migration decisions of young people living with their parents.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145260610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exogamy, Proximity to Parents, and the Residential Choices of 1.5- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden","authors":"Benjamin F. Jarvis, Jenjira J. Yahirun","doi":"10.1002/psp.70117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70117","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Living near kin facilitates intergenerational support, which may be especially important for immigrant families. For 1.5- and second-generation immigrants, this creates a tension between residential integration and family obligations. This tension can grow when forming a union, particularly with a nonimmigrant. Yet little is known about how residential moves for partnered immigrants shape and are shaped by proximity to parents. Using Swedish register data from 1990 to 2017, we examine the settlement patterns and residential choices of (1) endogamous immigrant couples where partners have the same national background, (2) exogamous couples featuring one immigrant and one nonimmigrant partner, and (3) endogamous unions with two nonimmigrant Swedish partners. Descriptive statistics show that endogamous immigrants are most likely to be living near their parents, followed by exogamous immigrants, and then endogamous and exogamous Swedes. However, discrete choice models of residential mobility <i>behaviors</i>, which account for the spatial distribution of housing, reveal that all groups are more likely to locate nearer to parents, with only modest differences between them. Across model specifications, the effect of distance to parents for immigrants in exogamous unions is slightly, but consistently, weaker than for their partners or counterparts in other kinds of unions. These findings suggest weaker attachments between exogamous immigrants and their parents, while also underscoring how group differences in proximity to family reflect the uneven geographic distributions of housing and immigrant families in Sweden.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrating Together or Leaving Behind: The Impact of Migrants' Early Urban Migration on Their Children","authors":"Jun Li, Honghong Wei, Changjian Chen","doi":"10.1002/psp.70118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70118","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In recent years, the importance of urban experiences and learning effects among rural-to-urban migrants has been theoretically and empirically highlighted. However, the intergenerational impacts of migrants' early urban experiences have not been sufficiently explored in the existing literature, especially the impact on their children. Using data from the China Migrant Dynamics Survey, we examine the impact of migrants' age at first migration on their children migrating together and the underlying influence mechanisms. We find that the younger migrants are when they move to cities, the less likely their children are to be left-behind. The mechanism analysis suggests that migrating to cities at a younger age promotes higher income, better social integration, and enhanced cognitive awareness of urban education. Moreover, a heterogeneity analysis reveals that the positive effects of early city migration on children migrating with their parents are more pronounced among second-born children, younger children, and migrants with lower education. Further analysis demonstrates the significant impact of early migration to cities in shaping gender disparities, particularly by increasing the likelihood of sons migrating with their parents. We provide valuable insights into the urbanization process and the issue of left-behind children, offering implications for developing countries facing similar migration challenges.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational Relationships Between African Migrant Parents in Europe and Caregivers in Africa","authors":"Bilisuma B. Dito, Valentina Mazzucato","doi":"10.1002/psp.70115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70115","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research shows the quality of the relationship between migrant parents and local caregivers is important for the care and wellbeing of migrants′ children who stay behind. Yet what exactly constitutes a well-functioning relationship remains to be defined at a large-scale, and especially for the case of African parents migrating to Europe. This study examines what factors shape the quality of relationship between local caregivers and migrant parents as experienced by migrant parents using data on 614 Angolan, Nigerian and Ghanaian migrant parents in Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands. Our findings highlight how caregiving capabilities influenced by remittances, marital status, and socioeconomic positions, influence local caregiver-migrant parent relationships. Gendered care cultures shape how migrant mothers experience warmer but more demanding relationships with local caregivers compared to migrant fathers, while migrant parents in general experience difficult relationships with non-partner biological local caregivers. The study also shows the specific ways migration regimes negatively affect transnational care relationships by causing prolonged family separation and difficulties in the capacity to remit.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industrial Structure Rationalisation, Upgrading, and the Geography of Intercity Migration in China","authors":"Sen Li, Jianfa Shen, Hengyu Gu","doi":"10.1002/psp.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the changing geographies of intercity migration in China and how various aspects of cities' industrial structure shape these patterns. Using microdata from the population census and the 1% population sampling survey, the analysis identifies a rising share of intra-provincial migration from 2000 to 2015, accompanied by more notable changes in its spatial pattern compared to interprovincial migration. A shift in migratory routes is emerging, from interprovincial migration to developed eastern cities toward intra-provincial migration to provincial capitals. A gravity model with Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation is employed to assess the impact of cities' industrial structure—measured by industrial structure rationalisation, inter-sectoral upgrading, and intra-sectoral manufacturing upgrading—on intercity migration. The econometric results indicate that higher levels of industrial structure rationalisation and nonagricultural industrial development are associated with greater in-migration and lower out-migration. A higher capital-intensive manufacturing concentration tends to reduce population inflows, whereas cities with a higher concentration of technology-intensive manufacturing attract more migrants. The subsample heterogeneity analysis (i.e., migration to eastern vs. non-eastern cities, and to high- vs. low-hierarchy cities) and the moderating effects of time, whether or not crossing provincial boundaries, and economy are discussed. Our findings provide insights for policymaking in addressing the dual challenges of sustaining population inflows while undertaking industrial restructuring.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}