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{"title":"It's All About the Age: Tracing Inequality, Segregation, and Polarization Among Younger, Midlife, and Older Persons in Greater Gothenburg, Sweden, Over Three Decades","authors":"Torun Österberg","doi":"10.1002/psp.70239","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70239","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyses how residential segregation, income inequality, and neighbourhood polarization have evolved across age groups in Greater Gothenburg, Sweden, between 1987 and 2017. Using register data, the analysis combines measures of ethnic and income-based segregation with decomposable inequality indices to examine age-specific dynamics. The results reveal pronounced generational differences that are unnoticed in aggregate analyses. In line with earlier research, overall ethnic segregation declined over time, reflecting increased spatial dispersion of individuals with a foreign background. However, ethnic segregation remains substantially higher among younger individuals compared to midlife and older groups. Exposure-based measures further show declining interaction between income-rich and income-poor individuals among younger cohorts. A further key finding is the sharp rise in income inequality among older individuals, driven by changes at the top of the income distribution, without a corresponding increase in residential segregation. In contrast, income-based polarization among younger individuals intensified despite stable or declining overall inequality, with the share of inequality attributable to between-neighbourhood differences rising from 5 to 19 percent over time. Overall, the findings underscore the importance of a generational perspective on inequality and segregation and suggest that policies targeting inequality alone are insufficient to address growing spatial polarization, particularly among younger populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147447428","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":"Migrants on the Property Ladder: The Role of Location in Shaping Housing Wealth Disparities in Urban China","authors":"Wenxiu Wang,&nbsp;Can Cui,&nbsp;Xueying Mu,&nbsp;Kaize Wu","doi":"10.1002/psp.70237","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70237","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existing studies on migrant housing have predominantly focused on access to homeownership and housing conditions in destination cities, largely overlooking the dimension of asset accumulation. In recent decades, an increasing number of migrants have achieved homeownership in their destination cities, hometowns, or elsewhere. However, where they purchase property significantly impacts the wealth they are able to accumulate. Drawing on data from the “Employment Status and Living Conditions of Migrants in Yangtze River Delta Cities” survey, this study investigates how migrants with varying socioeconomic characteristics and migration patterns choose the location for entering homeownership within the urban hierarchy, thereby influencing their housing wealth accumulation. The findings reveal that owning property in destination cities leads to higher market values and faster housing appreciation compared to owning property in hometown cities. However, only migrants with institutional and economic advantages, as well as those originating from higher-tier cities, are more capable of securing homeownership in destination cities, thereby boarding the escalator of housing wealth accumulation. By adopting a spatial perspective, this study highlights the profound impact of a city's position within the urban hierarchy on migrants' asset accumulation. The findings offer policy implications aimed at reducing institutional barriers, such as housing purchase restrictions, to enhance migrants' access to the property ladder, promote asset accumulation, and support greater social integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564065","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":"Migrants on the Property Ladder: The Role of Location in Shaping Housing Wealth Disparities in Urban China","authors":"Wenxiu Wang,&nbsp;Can Cui,&nbsp;Xueying Mu,&nbsp;Kaize Wu","doi":"10.1002/psp.70237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70237","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existing studies on migrant housing have predominantly focused on access to homeownership and housing conditions in destination cities, largely overlooking the dimension of asset accumulation. In recent decades, an increasing number of migrants have achieved homeownership in their destination cities, hometowns, or elsewhere. However, where they purchase property significantly impacts the wealth they are able to accumulate. Drawing on data from the “Employment Status and Living Conditions of Migrants in Yangtze River Delta Cities” survey, this study investigates how migrants with varying socioeconomic characteristics and migration patterns choose the location for entering homeownership within the urban hierarchy, thereby influencing their housing wealth accumulation. The findings reveal that owning property in destination cities leads to higher market values and faster housing appreciation compared to owning property in hometown cities. However, only migrants with institutional and economic advantages, as well as those originating from higher-tier cities, are more capable of securing homeownership in destination cities, thereby boarding the escalator of housing wealth accumulation. By adopting a spatial perspective, this study highlights the profound impact of a city's position within the urban hierarchy on migrants' asset accumulation. The findings offer policy implications aimed at reducing institutional barriers, such as housing purchase restrictions, to enhance migrants' access to the property ladder, promote asset accumulation, and support greater social integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564106","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":"The New Trend in China's Internal Migration: From Rural-to-Urban Migration to Urban-to-Urban Migration","authors":"Yiwen Shangguan","doi":"10.1002/psp.70236","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70236","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the emerging transition in China's internal migration patterns, shifting from rural-to-urban migration to urban-to-urban migration and examines its historical evolution, underlying drivers, and the characteristics of urban-to-urban migrants. Over the past 75 years, China's internal migration has followed an evolutionary trajectory characterised by a sequence of ‘free migration, restricted migration, rural-to-urban migration and urban-to-urban migration’. Key factors contributing to the rise of urban-to-urban migration include the advancement of urbanisation processes, widening disparities in regional development levels, industrial agglomeration and regional economic integration, improvements in human capital and enhanced conditions for migration. Drawing on Amap migration big data, we observe that urban-to-urban migration is rapidly increasing, with no clear spatial distinction between the origins and destination. Based on the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we reveal that individuals engaged in urban-to-urban migration generally exhibit higher levels of educational attainment, more conservative marriage and fertility behaviours, superior employment quality and a greater tendency to socialise with friends rather than neighbours. Other developing countries may also witness a similar transformation in migration patterns from rural-to-urban to urban-to-urban in the future. The experience from China has unique value for global migration studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564074","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":"The New Trend in China's Internal Migration: From Rural-to-Urban Migration to Urban-to-Urban Migration","authors":"Yiwen Shangguan","doi":"10.1002/psp.70236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70236","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the emerging transition in China's internal migration patterns, shifting from rural-to-urban migration to urban-to-urban migration and examines its historical evolution, underlying drivers, and the characteristics of urban-to-urban migrants. Over the past 75 years, China's internal migration has followed an evolutionary trajectory characterised by a sequence of ‘free migration, restricted migration, rural-to-urban migration and urban-to-urban migration’. Key factors contributing to the rise of urban-to-urban migration include the advancement of urbanisation processes, widening disparities in regional development levels, industrial agglomeration and regional economic integration, improvements in human capital and enhanced conditions for migration. Drawing on Amap migration big data, we observe that urban-to-urban migration is rapidly increasing, with no clear spatial distinction between the origins and destination. Based on the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we reveal that individuals engaged in urban-to-urban migration generally exhibit higher levels of educational attainment, more conservative marriage and fertility behaviours, superior employment quality and a greater tendency to socialise with friends rather than neighbours. Other developing countries may also witness a similar transformation in migration patterns from rural-to-urban to urban-to-urban in the future. The experience from China has unique value for global migration studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564075","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":"Refugee Camps as Contested Gendered Spaces: Afghan Women's Liminality, Inequality, and Agency in Germany","authors":"Sayed Mahdi Mosawi","doi":"10.1002/psp.70235","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70235","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how migrant women from Afghanistan who arrived in Germany in or after 2015—including asylum seekers, refugees, and those with rejected cases—experience and contest the everyday challenges within the liminal and precarious confines of camps and camp-like structures, including asylum reception and collective accommodation centres. It contributes critically to camp and refugee studies by centring the gendered experiences, liminality, intersectional vulnerabilities, and agency of women in these settings. The article argues that camps and camp-like spaces are contested gendered spaces where female migrants navigate and challenge multiple inequalities by exercising agency through diverse strategies. Afghan migrant women provide a compelling case, justified by their intersecting origins and the limited research on their experiences. In-depth interviews, participant observation, and a review of the literature are utilised to collect data using a qualitative design that implements an engaged narrative inquiry. Two interconnected themes emerge from the research. The first analyses how participants categorise their living arrangements as camps and <i>heims</i>, while addressing the spatial inequalities, gendered vulnerabilities, and liminal experiences they encounter. The second examines women's agency and the various strategies they exercise to navigate and contest these inequalities. Specifically, three forms of agency are highlighted: creative space-making, resilient navigation, and solidarity through faith and sisterhood.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147374334","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":"Stability and Changes in Social Network Profiles After Widowhood and Their Implications for Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in South Korea","authors":"Pildoo Sung,&nbsp;Jeremy Lim-Soh","doi":"10.1002/psp.70231","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70231","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Following the loss of a spouse, older adults often experience changes in their social networks across various dimensions, which may affect their mental health. Guided by continuity, disengagement, and activity theories, which posit diverse trajectories of social network adaptation to spousal loss, this study adopted a typological approach to investigate the stability and change in social network profiles before and after widowhood and their associations with depressive symptoms among older adults. This person-centered approach reconceptualizes how social networks evolve in later life, moving beyond single indicators to capture the multidimensionality and heterogeneity of older adults’ social worlds as they navigate significant life transitions within their specific socio-spatial contexts. This study analyzed data from 727 older adults who were married at Time 1, experienced widowhood at Time 2, and responded to questions on depressive symptoms at Time 3 in three consecutive waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. A latent transition analysis identified five distinct social network profiles—“diverse,” “child-focused,” “restricted,” “coresident, diverse,” and “coresident, restricted”—before and after widowhood, along with their transition patterns. Multivariable regression, controlling for baseline depressive symptoms, showed that older adults who (1) transitioned from the <i>diverse</i> to <i>child-focused</i> profile, (2) transitioned from the <i>diverse</i> to <i>coresident, diverse</i> profile, or (3) maintained the <i>coresident, restricted</i> profile were more likely to report higher levels of depressive symptoms after widowhood than those who maintained the <i>diverse</i> profile. These findings highlight the complexity and dynamics of social networks and intergenerational coresidence among older Koreans following widowhood, calling for interventions to promote diverse social networks among widowed older adults. Ultimately, this study resonates with recent scholarship calling for a shift from a focus on “aging in place” toward “aging in networks,” emphasizing that healthy aging depends on social embeddedness across various spatial and relational contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147374331","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":"How Post-Study Plans Project Into Onward Mobility Trajectories: Compromise, Attunement and Migrant Subjectification in (Re-)Routing Post-Study Migration of African Migrant Students in China","authors":"Daisy Binfang Wu","doi":"10.1002/psp.70234","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70234","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this article, I depart from the current majority of studies on international students’ plans of post-study to delve into how these plans unfold into their onward mobility trajectories. I situate the movement complexities within the theoretical perspective of an interplay between global mobility regimes and migrant subjectivities. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic engagement with African migrant students at a Chinese university, I reveal how they encounter a situation of struggle and subsequently (re-)route their post-study migration with accompanying compromise and attunement. Specifically, I show two most prevalent situations of difficulty faced by many African students, that are, (i) the plan to stay in China is thwarted by inadequate employment opportunities and policy support, and (ii) the plan to leave for a third country, usually a Western country in the ‘global North’, is impeded by a lack of sufficient capital resources. They eventually had to return to their home country, at least temporarily, or descend to a ‘second state of immobility’ that prolongs their stay in China. By revealing the unexpected challenges experienced by African migrant students during their post-study phase, this article contributes to problematising the dominant narrative that often portrays post-study migration as a calculated, planned outcome. It also contributes to staging post-study migration as part of ‘stepwise multinational migration’ by showing how students (re-)route their onward trajectories in response to the emergent unexpectedness.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569328","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":"Traversing Terrains of Proximities and Place Attachment in Forced Migrants' Lives in Finland","authors":"Iida Kauhanen,&nbsp;Joa Hiitola,&nbsp;Valtteri Vähä-Savo","doi":"10.1002/psp.70233","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70233","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study focuses on place attachment in the experiences of forced migrants in Finland. We are interested in how places feel distant or close and analyze the relations of everyday materialities and place attachment. Forming place attachments and a sense of home during forced migration is crucial for wellbeing and requires negotiation between a place and the people settling in. We draw from 25 interviews with ten participants, combining walking interviews with reflective follow-up sessions. Our findings demonstrate that place attachment is shaped by three types of proximity: <i>spatio-temporal</i>, <i>affective</i>, and <i>positional</i> proximity. These three are closely entangled with each other, influencing how close, safe, or comfortable a place feels. The participants' accounts stress that there is an urgent need to start considering how to create places of joy, where forced migrants can feel a sense of belonging as well as take control of their own lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147374323","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":"Just Right or Too Much? The Curvilinear Effects of Person–Environment Fit on Subjective Well-Being Among Chinese Older Adults","authors":"Feifan Gao,&nbsp;Yuxin Pan,&nbsp;Bo Qin,&nbsp;Siqi Wan","doi":"10.1002/psp.70232","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70232","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>China's accelerating population aging has sparked growing interest in the subjective well-being (SWB) of older adults. Much of the existing literature on aging in place demonstrates that person–environment (P–E) fit significantly influences their SWB. However, little research has examined the effects in a potential curvilinear form. Using data from the 2023 China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS), this study developed a comprehensive measure of P–E fit based on individual and neighborhood characteristics across facility, service, and social domains. We employed structural equation modeling to examine the curvilinear associations of this measure with SWB (positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction). The findings reveal an inverted U-shaped pattern. In general, higher P–E fit was associated with improved SWB. However, the too-much-of-a-good-thing (TMGT) effect emerged, showing diminishing and even negative returns when the P–E fit was extremely high. Distinct mediating pathways were explored: physical activity mediated the link between facility fit and SWB, while social interaction mediated the associations of service fit and social fit with SWB. These findings highlight the importance of neighborhood interventions that are “just right” rather than “too much,” aligning resources with older adults' actual competencies to support active aging.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320966","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}