%0 Journal Article %A Guifang XIA %A Yu ZHU %A Liyue LIN %A Wenqian KE %T Migrants' multidimensional integration in cities and regional differences in the three major economic regions of China's eastern coastal area %D 2018 %R 10.18306/dlkxjz.2018.03.008 %J PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY %P 373-384 %V 37 %N 3 %X

Based on the data for 35 cities of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, and the Pearl River Delta region from China's migrant dynamic monitoring survey in 2012, this study developed a series of indices to measure the degree of migrant integration in cites in the following five dimensions: economic integration, social integration, mental integration, institutional integration, and public service integration. It then calculated scores of these indices and a comprehensive score of migrant integration for the three major economic regions and 35 cities, and compared the results among these economic regions and cities. The results suggest that the comprehensive score of migrant integration is the highest in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, followed by the Yangtze River Delta region and the Pearl River Delta region. The degrees of migrant integration are uneven across the five dimensions in the same region: while the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, and the Pearl River Delta region have the highest score of migrant social integration, mental integration, and social integration respectively, scores of institutional integration, social integration, and public service integration ranked on the bottom in the three regions. On the whole, the work intensity of migrants in the three regions is high, their social contacts are limited within fellow migrants, and most of them are still uncertain about their long-term settlement intention in their destination cities. In all three regions many problems exist in implementing the institutional arrangements based on the residence card or temporary residence card for migrants, and in promoting migrants’ access to urban medical insurance. These problems prevent migrants from being fully integrated into the destination cities, and need to be overcome in relevant policy making.

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