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作者

来源

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.67,P.33-43

语言

英文

关键字

DUAL-TRACK URBANIZATION; PEARL RIVER DELTA; LAND-DEVELOPMENT; URBAN TRANSFORMATION; COMMUNITY QUESTION; POSTREFORM CHINA; RURAL INDUSTRY; SOUTH CHINA; ECONOMY; CITIES

作者单位

[Qian, Zhu] Univ Waterloo, Sch Planning, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. Qian, Z (reprint author), Univ Waterloo, Sch Planning, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. E-Mail: z3qian@uwaterloo.ca

摘要

Small town urbanization in China is a heterogeneous and contested process that involves numerous actors and forces in the context of highly liberalized local economies. This paper examines the soci-oeconomic transformation and adaptation to small town life among landless and resettled villagers in the state-sponsored small town urbanization from the villagers' perspective. Based on survey opinions from the affected villagers in two small towns in Nanjing, it articulates how the institutional arrangements of land development and spatial-territorial reorganization have exerted their direct socioeconomic influence on the transformation of landless and displaced villagers' lives. The study concludes that, as a result of the growing establishment of socioeconomic relationships with the host small town society, villagers encounter various challenges that differ substantially from their expectations in the absence of more institutionalized labor market and full-fledged social service programs. Resettled villagers now face more subtle forms of institutional segmentations while the official implementation and villagers' awareness of social security and welfare programs are questionable. The study calls for a two-way approach for future research that, alongside exploring the perceptions of resettled villagers, also investigates the host society's attitudes and perceptions about these new residents. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.