{"title":"Which Types of Public Services Matter? The Impact of Access to Public Services on the Urban Settlement Intention of Migrants in China","authors":"Ziming Liu, Yuan Zheng, Bintong Yu, Zhigang Wang","doi":"10.1002/psp.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examined which migrants accessed four types of urban public services including housing support, medical insurance, health records, and residence permits, and investigated the relative impacts of such accessibility of public services on the urban settlement intention of migrants. Using the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) data in 2017, our results show that migrants have selective access to public services in urban China. That is, migrants with a higher socioeconomic status (in their prime working years, with higher household income and educational attainments) are more likely to access urban public services. Then we find that such multiple public services all have positive but different effects on migrants' settlement intention, after eliminating bias due to the selective accessibility of migrants by propensity score matching analysis. The magnitude of the estimated effects of housing support and medical insurance is considerably higher than residence permits and health records.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144085158","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}
Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Dimitria Groutsis, Joana Vassilopoulou, Cihat Erbil
{"title":"The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour","authors":"Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Dimitria Groutsis, Joana Vassilopoulou, Cihat Erbil","doi":"10.1002/psp.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper theorises the refugee integration industry by examining how institutional configurations and stakeholder arrangements shape labour market integration outcomes for refugees in Germany and Turkey. Drawing on Spender's theory of industrial recipes, we conceptualise the integration industry as a network of public, private and third-sector actors governed by competing logics of humanitarianism and market efficiency. Through a comparative case study approach based on more than 200 policy, institutional, and civil society sources, we demonstrate how power asymmetries and economic imperatives systematically marginalise refugees' human agency, producing both humanising and dehumanising effects. We introduce a fourfold typology of (de)humanitarianism, indifference, assimilation, integration and multiculturalism models that reveals how different national and organisational contexts mediate the moral, economic, and political tensions at the heart of refugee labour market integration. Despite stark contrasts in governance models and economic capacity, both countries institutionalise forms of exclusion that limit meaningful participation and recognition. Our analysis advances the theoretical understanding of the refugee integration industry as a contested and relational space where policy, discourse and institutional practice interact to shape refugee subjectivities and futures. In doing so, we call for more reflexive, inclusiv, and agency-centred approaches to integration that foreground social justice and co-determination.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944415","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":"Non-Survival to Pension Age in Denmark and Sweden: A Sub-National Investigation","authors":"Ilya Kashnitsky","doi":"10.1002/psp.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Mortality keeps improving even in the most developed countries. Deaths before senior age become more and more occasional and thus are increasingly considered unnecessary and perhaps even avoidable. Denmark belongs to the most developed countries of the world in terms of progress in lowering human mortality levels. Yet there is still much room for large improvements—compared to Sweden, the Danish population has almost the same survival profile up to age 50 but then there are striking differences in later ages. Between ages 50 and 65 about 10% of Danish males die while in Sweden this proportion is only about 7%. This paper explores the regularities of non-survival to pension age across Danish municipalities and compares them to ones in Sweden. The main focus of this exploration is identification of the spatial patterns based on the mortality characteristics of the population that are studied using the advanced spatial clustering algorithm. The methodological challenge resolved along the way is the construction of reliable life table estimates for the small municipal populations. The results suggest that the main reason for the observed gap between Danish and Swedish municipalities, especially for males, is the lagging behind development of the most deprived areas, which corresponds with the results on widening gaps along socioeconomic dimensions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944414","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":"Fertility Differences by Type of Residence Permit Among Female Immigrants in Sweden","authors":"Erik Carlsson","doi":"10.1002/psp.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Immigrants’ life circumstances both before and after migration are likely to vary considerably by type of residence permit, which may affect fertility behaviour. Yet, the relationship between permit type and fertility is surprisingly underexplored. This study uses Swedish population register data to examine fertility differences by permit type among female immigrants to Sweden. The study also examines variation in fertility patterns within the family migrant category by characteristics of the male partner. The analysis compares how the mean number of children of different groups develops over time, both before and after immigration. The relationship between permit type and fertility is examined separately by geographical origin, to facilitate the disentanglement of permit type and origin effects on immigrant fertility. Results show that the mean number of children is higher among refugees and family migrants than among labour and student migrants. Family migrants experience an increase in fertility tempo shortly after migration, whereas this pattern is less pronounced and often somewhat delayed among labour and student migrants and largely absent among refugees. Among family migrants, women who migrated together with or shortly after their male partner have the highest fertility, whereas family migrants with a Swedish-born partner have lower fertility than other family migrants. This study contributes new knowledge to the understanding of how permit type relates to fertility, by studying fertility differences between more permit categories than earlier studies, by considering time both before and after migration, and by exploring heterogeneity within the family migrant category.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944413","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":"Gender Attitudes, Inequality and Migration Decision-Making","authors":"Sandra Morgenstern, Carlos Vargas-Silva","doi":"10.1002/psp.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the role of gender-unequal attitudes towards gender norms and perceived structural gender inequality in the migration decision-making of men and women. Adopting a conceptual model based on possible selves theory, the research employs a contextual social identity perspective concerning gender. We posit that the disparate spheres of inequality experienced by women relative to men should have a distinct relationship with the constituent elements of migration decision-making per gender. We expect a negative (positive) relationship between more conservative gender attitudes and women's (men's) aspirations to migrate. Similarly, gender inequalities concerning structural opportunities should have a negative (positive) relationship with women's (men's) expectation to migrate. We explore these propositions using survey data from a sample of 11,563 young adults aged 18-39 from Afghanistan, Cabo Verde, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Tunisia and Turkey. The results provide insights regarding the role of gender-unequal attitudes and structural gender inequality in migration decision-making. More conservative gender-unequal attitudes are associated with a lower preference for migration among women. More conservative gender-unequal attitudes have no statistically significant relationship with a preference for migration among men. On the other hand, higher perceived structural gender inequality is linked to higher expectations of migration for men, but with no statistically significant indication for women.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905222","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}
Ingrid Setz, Marie-Caroline Compans, Éva Beaujouan
{"title":"The Diffusion of Late Fertility Across European Regions (2006–2018)","authors":"Ingrid Setz, Marie-Caroline Compans, Éva Beaujouan","doi":"10.1002/psp.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rise in late fertility has emerged as a landmark trend in high-income countries in recent decades. Yet, its spread has been geographically uneven, which has largely been attributed to socioeconomic contextual factors. Our study introduces a new perspective: the role of spatial diffusion processes. We exploit the regional variation in the increase in the contribution of late fertility rates to total fertility to assess whether a region follows the behaviour of nearby regions in preceding periods. To test this, we use a comprehensive panel of 193 regions across 18 European countries and utilise a dynamic spatial Durbin model that captures both temporal and spatial interdependencies. After accounting for socioeconomic factors known to affect late fertility rates, such as the tertiarisation of education or changes in the opportunity structure of the labour market, we still find a significant association between geographic proximity and the rise in late fertility across European regions. This underlines the deep interconnectedness within and across contemporary societies. Thus, beyond socioeconomic transformations, our research provides empirical evidence that diffusion processes have contributed to the spread of late births across the continent, and will likely continue to shape future fertility trends.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905223","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":"Navigating Care in the Assemblage of (im)Mobilities: Social Protection Strategies Among Latin American Transnational Families in the Post-Pandemic Period","authors":"Laura Oso, Raquel Martínez-Buján, Paloma Moré","doi":"10.1002/psp.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article analyses the social protection strategies that Latin American transnational families have deployed to cope with the new regime of (im)mobilities that emerged after the COVID-19 crisis. It reflects on how the pandemic has restructured the articulation of the family welfare model and the migration regime in Spain. From a theoretical point of view, it combines the analysis of family strategies of “transnational social protection” with the approach of spatial and social (im)mobilities. The article also includes a multilevel analysis (macro, meso, micro) of the connections between care and migration. A mixed methodology was used: (1) the exploitation of secondary sources to show the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on Latin American immigrant families in Spain; and (2) an analysis of ethnographic material consisting of in-depth interviews (<i>n</i> = 41) with transnational families (<i>n </i>= 13) whose members reside both in Spain (<i>n </i>= 27) and their countries of origin (<i>n </i>= 14). The results show that after the COVID-19 crisis, an “assemblage of spatial and social (in)mobilities” was generated for the immigrant population. They highlight the social blockages that the immigrant population had to face: legal, residential, occupational, and care, and also how informal arrangements to solve these immobilities are led by women. Families who were further along in the migration cycle or who had social capital (relatives in Spain) were less affected by the impact of the crisis.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143888838","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":"Motivation and Migration Trajectories of EU Citizens on the Move: Repeat and Multiple Migrants in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain","authors":"Justyna Salamońska","doi":"10.1002/psp.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Intra-European migrants move in different configurations, both in terms of trajectories (one-off, repeat, multiple) and in terms of motivations (including work, family, education and/or lifestyle). In this article I provide a statistical picture of migrant trajectories and motivations based on a survey of EU internal movers coming from and residing in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. While around 49 per cent of migrants migrated internationally only once, 13 per cent moved repeatedly between their country of origin and their current destination, and further 38 per cent had lived in a different destination country in the past. The motives for migration and past trajectories are related to future migration plans. Multiple movers are more willing to move outside the EU in the future if they could significantly improve their working or living conditions and they are more likely to declare to live in another destination country in 5 years' time. Moving for quality of life is a good predictor of not being willing to return to the country of origin or move to another country in 5 years' time.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143888995","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":"Beyond Homeownership: Uncovering the Impact of Ownership-Residence Mismatch on Subjective Well-Being in Urban China","authors":"Sainan Lin, Kewei Ding, Jiangbin Yin","doi":"10.1002/psp.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While extensive research has explored the impact of housing tenure on individuals' subjective well-being (SWB), little is known about the implications of the emerging owner-renting phenomenon—where homeowners live in rented housing instead of their owned property within the same city—referred to as the ownership-residence mismatch. This study draws on nationally representative survey data from the 2017 CHFS, supplemented by qualitative interviews conducted in 2025, to examine how both homeownership and the alignment between ownership and residence affect SWB. Our findings confirm the positive effect of homeownership on SWB. However, owner-renters, despite being well-educated and having high incomes, report lower SWB than those who both own and reside in their homes, highlighting the importance of ownership-residence alignment. Drawing on the concept of ontological security, we argue that not living in one's own home may undermine the sense of stability, control and identity crucial to SWB. The mismatch is particularly detrimental in first-tier cities, where high housing costs and intense competition exacerbate the challenges faced by owner-renters. These results call for more nuanced housing policies that move beyond the traditional own-rent dichotomy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143883808","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}
Alfredo Cartone, Andrea D'Isidoro, Domenica Panzera, Paolo Postiglione
{"title":"Spatial Segregation, Socioeconomic Disparities and Spatial (in)Justice in a Region of the Mediterranean","authors":"Alfredo Cartone, Andrea D'Isidoro, Domenica Panzera, Paolo Postiglione","doi":"10.1002/psp.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent decades, interest in residential segregation has increased in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region, primarily due to immigration. This study explores segregation and its potential links to socioeconomic disparities and social (in)justice. The analysis uses standard segregation indicators, along with their spatial counterparts, and employs permutation tests for inference. These methods are applied to the province of Pescara, a Mediterranean city in Southern Italy, to also explore segregation differences between urban and rural areas. Finally, we discuss how this approach can assist policymakers in identifying segregation pockets in rural outskirts and prevent potential spatial (in)justices and socioeconomic disparities affecting ethnic minorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143883806","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}