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{"title":"Socio-metabolic practices and heterogeneous sanitation infrastructures in urbanizing China","authors":"Qi Liu, Deljana Iossifova","doi":"10.1177/27541223231206565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231206565","url":null,"abstract":"The transformation of urban sanitation is critical to achieving sustainable development. However, recent research challenges the assumption that the networked sanitation systems of the industrialized world are universally desirable. Instead, there is a growing call for practice-oriented scholarship and policy-making that start with an analysis of what people actually do in their everyday lives as they interact with differentiated, decentralized, or alternative sanitation infrastructures. This paper explores the relationship between sanitation infrastructures and socio-political urban geographies, and investigates how sanitation practices are shaped by and, in turn, shape human ecosystems in rapidly urbanizing contexts. We propose a refined human ecosystem framework (HEF) that foregrounds the role of embodied practices in mediating between material and social domains within the unequal, politicized, and contentious processes of urban metabolism. Using contemporary Shanghai as a case study, we examine the socio-material-temporal characteristics of existing sanitation practices and their connections to heterogeneous sanitation infrastructures. Through this, we demonstrate how cultural beliefs and social norms shape infrastructure functionality and the broader sustainability of sanitation systems. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the politics of sanitation infrastructure and highlights the need for context-specific approaches to sanitation planning and implementation that center on local practices.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"86 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138945499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Potential and realized access to healthcare services in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China","authors":"Sainan Lin, Huilin Deng, Yu Wang, Si Chen","doi":"10.1177/27541223231212457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231212457","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare accessibility is a crucial livelihood issue directly related to people’s health. Given that existing studies have often focused on residents’ potential geographic access in a single city, this study examines the access to healthcare services in Wuhan Metropolitan Area in both potential and realized dimensions. We pay particular attention to the quantitative measurement of the actual fit between healthcare services being offered and utilized. Overall, we found satisfactory potential access to healthcare facilities within reach of residential spaces in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, yet it is uneven across the nine cities and different areas. By measuring realized access through the coupling coordination degree of healthcare provision and utilization, our findings showed that except for Wuhan, all the other cities suffer from various levels of incoordination and lack resilience to public health emergencies. Taken together, this requires the regional government to formulate a more coordinated and comprehensive plan for resource allocation and to promote resource sharing among cities. Targeted policies for certain cities are also needed, to improve residents’ healthcare accessibility.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":" 1195","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Socioeconomic differentiation among food delivery workers in China: The case of Nanjing","authors":"Shuangshuang Tang, Pu Hao","doi":"10.1177/27541223231216500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231216500","url":null,"abstract":"In China, the booming platform economy has reshaped the urban labor market, offering entry-level opportunities to urban residents, particularly rural migrant workers. Unlike traditional sectors characterized by occupational segregation between rural migrants and urban locals, platform-based gig jobs, such as food delivery and ride-hailing, have attracted both groups, creating a diverse labor force. This paper utilizes data from a recent questionnaire survey and face-to-face interviews with food delivery workers in Nanjing to investigate socioeconomic disparities among urban locals, urban migrants, and rural migrants all engaged in the same occupation. Among these groups, rural migrant workers have the lowest socioeconomic status and worst living conditions, often perceiving food delivery as a last-resort means of livelihood. Conversely, most urban locals and urban migrants turn to food delivery to supplement their family incomes or as a temporary job while pursuing other career opportunities. Furthermore, both rural and urban migrant workers experience a higher degree of job insecurity compared to urban locals. These disparities in socioeconomic status and subjective well-being among the three groups within the food delivery labor force influence their divergent life prospects in terms of career paths and settlement intentions.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cohesion and cleavage: An examination of the sense of belonging of Muslim migrants in Northwest China","authors":"Haichao Wang, Xiaofeng Han","doi":"10.1177/27541223231217433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231217433","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the internal dynamics of Hui Fang Jamaat and the diverse groups of Muslims within it. Rather than simply suggesting the importance of religious and geographical differences in forging the Muslim migrant’s sense of belonging in their migratory life, we prefer to explore how these differences have been understood by migrants when interacted with others. Through presenting the nuanced experiences of and value judgements made by Muslim migrants, we aim to provide a deeper understanding of the experiences of Muslim migrants and to challenge preconceived notions by showcasing their diverse perspectives. It emphasizes that the sense of belonging is the process of an emotional positioning that Muslim migrants arrive at after continuously evaluating and weighing internal and external factors in their surrounding environment, for example the widely use and assessing of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. These transcend sectarian and regional differences and have an impact on how Muslim migrants have navigated their identities and experienced “a cluster of the sense of belonging” in this digital era.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"36 ","pages":"416 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139015420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Migration and migrants in Chinese cities: New trends, challenges and opportunities to theorise with urban China","authors":"Zheng Wang, Liyue Lin, Shuangshuang Tang, Yang Xiao","doi":"10.1177/27541223231217431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231217431","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory article to the special issue discusses some of the latest trends in migration research in urban China and focuses on three areas which have generated new understandings on migration and migrants in Chinese cities. Firstly, it identifies the various similarities and intersections between urban resettlement and migration studies by drawing on the case of China where the livelihoods and experience of migrants and resettled residents have been affected by China’s rapid urbanisation. Secondly, the paper discusses the enduring significance of the residential neighbourhood in influencing the place attachment, social relationships and career development of migrant residents. Finally, it delves deeper into the various ways studies have sought to categorise and differentiate between different migrant sub-groups in urban China and reveals that more fine-grained migration studies have helped better understand China’s large and ever more diverse migrant population and their variegated living experiences and challenges.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"271 ","pages":"317 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139019878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relations between individual residence trajectory and macro social transformation: Passive relocation migrants in shanty town in Shanghai, China","authors":"Shuhan Zhou, Yanbo Li","doi":"10.1177/27541223231217435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231217435","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of socio-economic transformations, Chinese cities have entered the era of inventory land renewal, large-scale urban renewal, and old city renovation, which have triggered a large number of passive relocation behaviors, which led to intra-urban movements and migration. It is essential to understand what the Chinese family is undergoing before and after the relocation and how the macro social power impacts the trajectory of residence and living patterns of individual families step by step. Based on the oral history of Hongzhen Old Street informal settlement in Shanghai, using a qualitative research method, this article takes the life course of passive relocation migrants as a starting point, and summarizes a migrant residence transformation pedigree and survival mechanism from the gradual and struggling spatial practice before relocation, the decision-making and negotiation process, to the life after relocation with difficulty in taking root and community re-connection. This study reveals that in the long process of top-down land expropriation, residents have always been in an unsettled and temporary state, with their dynamic residential needs ignored, accelerating the decay and disorder of their neighborhood. In addition, although they have improved their spatial living conditions after the relocation, they still face the marginalization and deprivation of social resources. These problems reflect land economy, social capital, housing policy, and urban development mode.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"963 2","pages":"374 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139014125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Place of origin, education, and the career development plights of the suburban migrant workers in Zhejiang manufacturing industry","authors":"Xiaoqing Zhang, Jia Zhou","doi":"10.1177/27541223231216650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231216650","url":null,"abstract":"China’s rapid urbanization over the past three decades has created a multifaceted social-spatial dynamic on the urban fringe – urbanized suburbs, wherein an influx of migrants juxtaposed with an outflow of the local population. Against this background, the extant migrant studies in China mainly focus on rural and urban migration, yet suburban migrants are relatively underrepresented. Suburban migrants have roots in the built-up urban, and they designate rural residents who have been resettled during the urbanization process and subsequently moved into other cities to live and work. As the complexities of governmental schemes, their household registrations (hukou) may or may not be changed from rural to urban during neighborhood redevelopment. In migrant studies that use rural-urban hukou as a dichotomous statistical classification, their socio-demographic characteristics as a sample group are hard to capture. This paper examines the career development of suburban migrants in the manufacturing industry in Zhejiang China, where migrant workers are concentrated. It compares the career development of migrant workers from rural, suburban, and urban areas on four dimensions – unemployment risk, occupational skill level, income level, and occupational position. The study of 553 intra-provincial migrant workers finds that suburban migrants encountered comparable challenges in their career development as rural migrants did. Furthermore, the level of education attained by individuals has a noteworthy mediating effect, contributing to the disparities observed across urban, suburban, and rural groups. The gap in career development between suburban migrants and their urban counterparts – even in Zhejiang, a province with the smallest economic gap between urban and rural development in China and was relatively less impacted by the epidemic outbreak – is still significant. This research aims to enrich scholarly dialogues surrounding the field of migrant studies and the intricate socio-spatial dynamics prevalent within Chinese suburban areas.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"124 ","pages":"332 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138988893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Struggling with inequality and the uncertain reterritorialization of migrants: A case study of Guangzhou","authors":"Xiaowei Liang, Qifeng Yuan, Yan Guo, Junwen Lu","doi":"10.1177/27541223231217436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231217436","url":null,"abstract":"The citizenization of migrants has become a challenging practical issue and a significant research topic within the realm of social justice. Nowadays, with a large number of studies concerning the unjust lives of migrants, few researches probe their struggle with inequality. This struggling is reflected in space, in the reterritorialization of the migrants. Reterritorialization involves the reconstruction of the meaning and function of a territory. Deterritorialization meaning the weakening of territoriality. This paper concentrates on the reterritorialization of migrants, and attempts to fill the research gap through an in-depth case study of a representative urban village located in Guangzhou. The data for this study were collected through three rounds of questionnaire surveys conducted with migrants in 2016, 2020, and 2023. Government statistics and semi-structured interviews with local government officials and original villagers are also used in the research. It has been found the initial territorialization of KL Village was driven by the city’s development and the demand for industries and migrant labor. Subsequently, the concentration of migrants led to the transformation of the village into an urban village that caters to professional markets. The distinctive characteristics of the industry and the lifestyles of migrants resulted in the departure of local villagers, making migrants the sole users of the village and facilitating its reterritorialization. Migrants reterritorialized various systems within the village, including the commercial system, public service system, and transportation system. However, the reterritorialization remains uncertain. The urban villages may undergo deterritorialization when industries decline or when significant events with negative societal impacts occur. This paper further emphasizes the importance of governments recognizing the circumstances faced by migrants and ensuring the provision of stable spaces for them. In general, this paper makes an empirical contribution by offering a fresh perspective to the study of migrants and territorialization in China.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"43 6","pages":"349 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139017459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promoting or inhibiting: The role of socio-economic integration on migrant entrepreneurship","authors":"Jing Zou, Liming Yao, Xiaoxuan Lan, Xiaojun Deng","doi":"10.1177/27541223231216655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231216655","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship plays a key role in promoting the global economic growth. However, the association between socio-economic integration and migrant entrepreneurship goes unnoticed. Based on 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), using a baseline regression model, Heckman two-stage model and IV Probit model, our research evidences a positive correlation between migrants’ integration into the society and their entrepreneurship. Specifically, for every standard deviation increase in the socio-economic integration level of migrants, the probability of having entrepreneurial engagement increases by 1.4%. Further findings indicates that migrant’s socio-economic integration is negatively correlated with migrant necessity-based entrepreneurship, while indicating a positive relationship between migrants’ socio-economic integration and opportunity-based entrepreneurship. The underlying mechanism of how socio-economic integration impacts migrant necessity-based entrepreneurship is through changes in the perception of difficulty and migrants’ settlement intention. The internal mechanism of how socio-economic integration influences migrant opportunity-based entrepreneurship is by changing localised social capital and migrants’ risk preference. More extensive investigations evidence that the degree of marketisation and the level of information have significant regulatory effect on the relationship between socio-economic integration and migrant entrepreneurship. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the relationship between socio-economic integration and migrant entrepreneurship varies across different levels of human capital, material capital and experience capital.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"493 ","pages":"432 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139020236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns and determinants of location change in migrants’ residential mobility: A case study of Fuzhou","authors":"Liyue Lin, Yuxing Wei","doi":"10.1177/27541223231217432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231217432","url":null,"abstract":"Residential mobility is an important issue within urban and housing studies. However, the existing literature mainly focuses on the pattern and motivation for a move of residential mobility, and seldom examines the location changes before and after migrants’ residential mobility. This study adopts the perspective of life-course and social-psychological theories to depict the residential trajectories of Fuzhou migrants, explores the influencing factors of location change in residential mobility, and conducts a comparative analysis of inter-provincial and intra-provincial migrants. It is found that the majority of migrants just move between urban villages in the same township, and the dominant type of location change is an outward movement across the ring roads, and this trajectory is especially marked among intra-provincial migrants. Changes in neighborhood environment and perception are decisive in explaining the location change of both intra-provincial and inter-provincial migrants. Additionally, younger cohorts, marriage, and having children in the city only significantly affect inter-provincial migrants’ residential location change, while changes in housing conditions are only of great importance to intra-provincial migrants’ residential location change.","PeriodicalId":498343,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in planning and urban research","volume":"38 10","pages":"459 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139017071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}