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{"title":"Between Family Responsibilities and Individual Desires: Gendered Negotiations of Post-Graduation Migration Among Chinese Female International Students","authors":"Fengyi Lin,&nbsp;Jialu Wang,&nbsp;Wanyi Xie,&nbsp;Wenqin Shen","doi":"10.1002/psp.70316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70316","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While international students' post-graduation migration decisions have received growing scholarly attention, existing research often reduces them to binary outcomes and explains them mainly in terms of economic rationality, overlooking the gendered and socially embedded nature of these processes. Drawing on the Gendered Geographies of Power framework, this study examines how Chinese female international students navigate migration decisions at the intersection of the expanded agency enabled by transnational mobility and enduring gendered obligations. Based on interviews with 48 graduates from European and North American universities, the study identifies five distinct trajectories: Determined Returnees, Reluctant Returnees, Nonconformist Stayers, Ambivalent Stayers, and Opportunity-oriented Cosmopolitans. These patterns reveal that migration is not a discrete choice but a process of gendered meaning-making driven by the negotiation of gender norms across multiple geographic scales—from the body and family to the nation-state. The findings highlight a critical tension between cognitive agency and corporeal agency: while overseas education provides a reflexive space to reshape gendered self-understandings, actual migration outcomes remain strongly conditioned by dynamics at the family scale. Specifically, against the backdrop of China's One-Child Policy and limited public eldercare, women's mobility becomes increasingly tethered to affective filial obligations and intergenerational care responsibilities. The study contributes to international student migration literature by conceptualizing migration as a socially embedded process of meaning-making rather than a static rational calculation. It highlights the emotional tensions involved in these negotiations and reveals a hybrid gender order in contemporary China, in which women's increased educational attainment coexists with enduring patriarchal expectations in family life.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324347","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":"Multiscalar (Dis)connections in Medical Education and Healthcare Work in Romania and Beyond","authors":"Sarah Hartmann,&nbsp;Elena Trifan","doi":"10.1002/psp.70306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70306","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Healthcare systems worldwide face growing challenges related to workforce shortages, uneven personnel distribution, governance and long-term sustainability. The training and mobility of healthcare professionals are central to these challenges, yet the interdependencies between medical education, healthcare provision, workforce planning and mobility are often governed across different institutions, policy domains and scales. This article examines how the Romanian healthcare and medical education systems are shaped by (dis)connections across individual, regional, national and international scales. Romania provides a particularly revealing case, occupying a dual position within Europe as both a major supplier of doctors to other countries and an international hub for medical education. Adopting a multi-scalar approach, we develop (dis)connection as an empirically derived category and diagnostic tool to examine how divergences between policy domains, geographic inequalities and the frictions between individual career trajectories and national and international labour market demands contribute to a fragmented yet transnationally entangled healthcare system. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Romania and Switzerland, the study foregrounds the perspectives of key actors across medical education, policy, and labour sectors, offering a nuanced examination of the tensions and negotiations that shape current healthcare systems. Our findings show that horizontal institutional coordination, spatial inequalities and misalignments between individual aspirations and systemic needs create persistent strain within Romania's healthcare system. While international mobility for education and work generates opportunities at the individual and institutional levels, it often undermines sustainable workforce planning and retention from a national perspective. Tracing the ambivalent effects of (dis)connections across multiple scales reveals both dysfunctions and potential leverage points for transformation. With these findings and the conceptual lens of (dis)connections, we contribute to broader interdisciplinary debates on the sustainability of healthcare systems in increasingly interconnected contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615781","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":"Mobility, Work and Families Amongst the Highly Skilled","authors":"Sophie Cranston,&nbsp;Aija Lulle","doi":"10.1002/psp.70314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282571","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":"Patterns and Mechanisms of Small-Town Shrinkage in the Yangtze River Delta, China","authors":"Shuang Qian,&nbsp;Xiaolong Luo,&nbsp;Xiaoman Liu,&nbsp;Yanru Chen,&nbsp;Zhengyuan Liang","doi":"10.1002/psp.70305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70305","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Small towns in China are widely facing the dual challenges of weakening development momentum and sustained population outmigration, a phenomenon that has extended beyond traditional shrinking regions to economically developed areas such as the Yangtze River Delta. As fundamental units and extensive hinterlands within the spatial structure of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, small towns experiencing systemic functional decline will exert profound negative impacts on the process of regional integration. Therefore, systematically identifying and rationally understanding the phenomenon of small-town shrinkage at the regional scale holds significant theoretical and practical implications. Drawing on the 2010 and 2020 Chinese census data and employing spatial autocorrelation analysis, this study systematically examines the spatial patterns and driving mechanisms of small-town shrinkage in the Yangtze River Delta. The results reveal widespread small-town shrinkage in the Yangtze River Delta, with significant differences across metropolitan areas and pronounced polarisation among towns within counties. The driving mechanisms can be summarised in three aspects: (1) disparities in development opportunities embedded within the state-led hierarchical governance system, (2) differentiated spatial restructuring driven by regional integration and core-city expansion, and (3) increasingly disadvantaged position of ordinary small towns in the process of population redistribution. These findings suggest that small-town shrinkage in China's developed regions does not simply follow the conventional trajectory of urban decline associated with Western deindustrialisation, but rather reflects a broader process of uneven development under state-led urbanisation and regional integration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282193","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":"Population Changes and Spatial Segregation Dynamics in Southern European Urban Areas: The Case of Messina","authors":"Francesca Bitonti,&nbsp;Daniela Ghio,&nbsp;Angelo Mazza,&nbsp;Massimo Mucciardi","doi":"10.1002/psp.70313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70313","url":null,"abstract":"<p>European countries have experienced significant transformations in their urban populations, with a resurgence of the residential segregation challenges. Yet, empirical analyses focusing on spatial dynamics within urban areas and between the main urban places, along with the changes in demographic profiles of populations, remain rare. The study examines segregation patterns within the area of Messina, Italy—an archetypal city in the Southern European region. To quantify segregation, Theil's H index and Shapley decomposition are employed, capturing entropy at both the micro and macro levels. At the micro level, analysis is conducted using census sections, while at the macro level, two aggregation schemes are utilised: a historical and administrative classification based on municipal districts and a functional classification organised along an urban-to-extra-urban gradient. Results highlight a dual framework of segregation between and within each spatial category (macro-micro level). Notably, the decline of the Italian population in central areas exacerbates macro-level segregation, particularly for migrant populations, such as Sri Lankans and Moroccans, while contrasting dynamics emerge for Romanians and Filipinos. Findings uncover the critical role of socio-economic disparities in shaping segregation patterns. Although hosting the majority of migrants, central districts exhibit mixed signals of desegregation, coherent with housing market exclusion and population turnover. Peripheral zones, conversely, remain marked by demographic stagnation and limited integration opportunities. By contextualising these patterns within broader theoretical models of spatial assimilation and stratification, this research contributes to the literature underscoring the nuanced interplay of demographic shifts and urban segregation dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282194","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":"Enclaved Mobility: A Meta-Geography of BRI Infrastructure-Led Urbanization in the Bandung Metropolitan Area","authors":"David Fernando Bachrach","doi":"10.1002/psp.70296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70296","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway is meant to take Indonesia into the future and drive regional and expansive economic growth. It is also a vital Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project for China. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the Bandung Metropolitan Area (BMA) from January 2023 to July 2024, this paper analyzes how infrastructure-led urbanization connected to the high-speed railway is unevenly affecting the economic lives of communities impacted by the project's construction and operation. This article argues that the railway is creating conditions of improved mobility for certain people and forms of capital, while producing immobility for others. These emerging patterns of differential mobility, in turn, have created enclave-like development in the BMA, but without physical barriers that differentiate who can and cannot enter these enclave spaces. This analysis frames the rise of enclave development in the BMA as an aspirational meta-geography of infrastructure-led urbanization, a proliferating form of urbanization, especially in the Global South. In areas that are envisioned as sites for future world-class city development in the form of transit-oriented development (TOD), communities impacted by the railway's construction and operation live in close proximity to middle- and upper-class passengers' improved movement to exclusive mixed-use developments, while they are isolated from these new mobility patterns in the BMA. As a case study of a renowned BRI project, this article deepens understandings of how uneven urban development arises from infrastructure-led urbanization, providing insights into the economic geographies emerging from China's increasingly significant role in global urbanization processes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615413","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":"Following Old Routes in New Times: Ukrainian Refugees and Migration Patterns in Poland","authors":"Rafał Wiśniewski,&nbsp;Marcin Mazur,&nbsp;Patryk Duma,&nbsp;Przemysław Śleszyński","doi":"10.1002/psp.70310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70310","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Since the end of February 2022, most European Union countries have experienced a substantial inflow of refugees from Ukraine. The pace and scale of this movement are unprecedented. In some countries, such as Poland, this inflow has coincided with the presence of economic migrants who had arrived prior to the outbreak of the war. This article examines the spatial relationships between the inflow of Ukrainian refugees and (i) distance from the Ukrainian border, and (ii) the distribution of economic migrants, and analyses how these relationships have evolved over time. The results demonstrate a significant influence of the Ukrainian diaspora on the spatial distribution of refugees, with this effect strengthening over time.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282292","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":"How Acculturation Strategies Shape Settlement Intentions of Rural–Urban Migrants in Guangzhou, China: The Mediating Roles of Socioeconomic Status and Subjective Well-Being","authors":"Zhongshan Yue,&nbsp;Zhixuan Chen,&nbsp;Ming Wen,&nbsp;Shuzhuo Li","doi":"10.1002/psp.70311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70311","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although acculturation has only recently been linked to migrant settlement, the process through which it unfolds among rural–urban migrants in developing countries remains largely understudied. Utilising data from a rural–urban migrant survey in Guangzhou, this study verifies that acculturation is directly related to settlement intentions and explores the potential mediating roles of socioeconomic status (SES) and subjective well-being. Moving beyond the traditional assimilation perspective, we conceptualise acculturation as a bidirectional (rural/urban orientations) and multidimensional (practices, values, and identifications) construct. Our analyses identify two subtypes of integration strategy and two subtypes of separation strategy. The results demonstrate that integrated migrants exhibit significantly stronger urban-settlement intention than their separated counterparts. This relationship is partially mediated by SES (assessed through perceived SES and income) and by subjective well-being (evaluated via life satisfaction). Integrated migrants tend to achieve higher perceived SES and life satisfaction, each of which is associated with a higher likelihood of urban settlement. These findings highlight the complex interplay among acculturation strategies, SES, and subjective well-being in shaping settlement decisions and provide suggestive evidence of the potential pathways through which acculturation strategies may influence settlement intentions in rapidly urbanising contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148281998","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":"Socio-Spatial Mobility and Inequalities in Adolescent Agency: A Longitudinal Study From Peru","authors":"Riccardo Valente","doi":"10.1002/psp.70312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70312","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how socio-spatial mobility across middle childhood and early adolescence is associated with perceived agency, using five waves of Young Lives Peru panel data (ages 8–15; <i>N</i> = 2,099). A multidimensional measure of socio-spatial mobility is constructed to capture residential moves, rural-urban transitions, and poverty trajectories. Their combined associations with agency at age 15 are estimated using linear, lagged, and time-aligned models. Results reveal substantial heterogeneity across mobility pathways. Upward spatial mobility, particularly transitions from rural into urban, resource-rich environments, is associated with higher levels of agency, net of household characteristics, contextual conditions, and time-varying shocks. Children remaining in persistent rural poverty consistently report the lowest levels of agency, as do those exposed to repeated residential moves, pointing to a destabilising effect of chronic spatial disruption. These patterns are robust to alternative model specifications, including adjustments for prior levels of agency, and indicate that the implications of socio-spatial mobility depend on whether movement reflects access to opportunity or exposure to instability. Overall, the findings underscore how spatial inequalities become internalised during adolescence, with implications for the persistence of disadvantage over the life course.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148281997","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":"Changing Place, Changing Time: Lifestyle-Oriented Student Switching and the Quest for Temporal Flexibilization","authors":"Fran Martin","doi":"10.1002/psp.70309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70309","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Focussing on a group of middle-class women from China who studied in Australia and migrated there post-study, this paper contributes to the nascent amalgamation of educational mobility with lifestyle mobility conceptual frameworks. It analyses Chinese student-switching as a form of lifestyle-motivated middling migration facilitated by Australia's skill-based immigration regime, and driven by the graduates' desires to escape the temporal regime of overwork in recessionary China and obtain greater control over their own time. The analysis shows how the student-switchers use their class-based spatial mobility capacity to offset their gender disadvantage through temporal flexibilisation at everyday and biographical scales. The paper offers empirical extensions to lifestyle migration and educational mobility studies, and its conceptualization of temporal flexibilisation offers theoretical contributions on the interaction of spatial, temporal, and gender dimensions in middle-class migrations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615213","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}