Population Space and Place最新文献

This study investigates how rural-to-urban migrants in China select dual frames of reference and how these choices shape their subjective well-being. It challenges conventional approaches that treat reference group comparisons as single and unordered, with a focus on either host or home comparisons. Drawing on original 2024 survey data from 15 cities, the study explores how integration into the host society and translocal ties to origin communities influence dual frames of reference. The findings show that economically integrated migrants tend to prioritize host-based comparisons, but many retain a secondary frame that is tied to rural/home communities or migrant peers. Meanwhile, strong translocal ties reinforce rural/home comparisons, suggesting that some migrants do not fully shift to host-based perspectives. Reference group frames influence subjective well-being differently under benchmark-exceedance (i.e., migrants economically outperform host residents) and benchmark-deficit (i.e., migrants economically underperform host residents) contexts. Our sample reflects the former. In this context, frames that prioritize urban residents yield the highest subjective well-being, while home residents yield the lowest, consistent with aspiration realization rather than relative deprivation. These findings contribute to reference group theory in migration research by showing how migrants navigate multiple comparisons and balance aspirations, competition, and identity throughout the integration process.

Racial inequalities, although at times covert and subtle, are among the most persistent discriminatory factors shaping the social domain of housing. Ireland's housing crisis has contributed to the reproduction of such inequalities affecting racialised communities. This paper draws on extensive qualitative research with Irish local authority staff (n=69) and with members of Ireland's Muslim communities (n = 193) to explore their perspectives and lived experiences in the context of accessing accommodation. Using blurred boundaries (Alba, 2005) and racialised space (Hopkins 2016; Itaoui 2016; Najib 2021) as our conceptual frameworks, we investigate experiences and perspectives of discrimination in/accessing social housing among Muslim communities and local authority staff. We argue that, on the one hand local authorities follow strategies that, although well intended, in a context where a race-evasive approach is institutionally pervasive, contribute to housing practices which create segregated communities. On the other hand, Muslim communities faced with such strategies and practices, whether intended or not, experience hostility/discrimination in/accessing social housing.

Studies of highly-skilled migrants have often focused on their status as privileged and hypermobile individuals widely lauded for their economic contributions. Equally deserving of attention however are the other facets of migration encompassing the imaginative, affective and emotional dimensions, its social, cultural, political and power linkages as well as obligations and frictions. Drawing on the ‘linked lives’ approach to researching migration over the life-course, we pay close attention to the interdependent (a)synchronous relationships between events, persons and their relations across three life-stages of 15 Australian transnational migrants in Singapore. Conducted from late 2019 to early 2020 with informal follow-up via social media and other means post-COVID, the study shows how highly-skilled migration and family life are mutually constitutive. As participants negotiate migration decisions—to stay, leave, return, move again, or embark on transnational circulation—in juggling parallel careers, opportunities, family obligations and migration aspirations, (a)synchronicities and interconnections often come into play most prominently at critical junctures in the life-course. These junctures emphasized the bidirectional effects of linked lives and manifest both conscious and/or (in)voluntary efforts to (un)link lives in pursuit of specific outcomes.

Residential and school mobility are central features of childhood that can shape later educational outcomes. This study examines how these two forms of mobility—spatial and institutional—affect the likelihood of completing high school on time in Canada. Using a linked dataset from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and administrative education records, we assess how the timing, frequency, and type of move influence educational attainment. We distinguish between residential moves, school moves, and combined moves to evaluate whether each disrupts social and institutional continuity in distinct ways. Logistic regression models show that moving homes or changing schools during adolescence significantly reduces the probability of on-time high school completion, with the strongest negative effect observed when both occur concurrently. In contrast, early childhood moves show little association with attainment once socioeconomic and family characteristics are accounted for. These findings advance understanding of the spatial and institutional dimensions of childhood mobility and their implications for educational inequality in Canada.

Ethnic residential segregation remains a central challenge for urban integration in an era of rising international and internal migration. While prior research has focused primarily on selective mobility mechanisms—such as white flight and native avoidance—the role of in-movers' settlement patterns in shaping segregation trajectories is less well understood. This study examines how the arrival of in-movers influences residential segregation in Stockholm by analysing their direct settlement choices, the indirect effects of their arrival on current residents' mobility decisions, and the cumulative long-term consequences of these processes. Using rich Swedish population registers linked to an empirically calibrated simulation model, we show that immigrant and native in-movers contribute to segregation through distinct pathways. Immigrant in-movers disproportionately settle in neighbourhoods with higher shares of immigrants, and their arrival increases the likelihood that existing immigrant residents relocate to these same areas, reinforcing clustering over time. Native in-movers, by contrast, exhibit a dual effect: although they preferentially settle in native-majority neighbourhoods, their arrival also attracts some immigrant residents, partially counterbalancing segregation pressures. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that segregation dynamics are shaped not only by internal mobility but also by the arrival of in-movers and the behavioural responses of current residents to them, underscoring the central role of migration-driven mechanisms in contemporary urban segregation.

This paper interrogates China's approach to transnational labour governance, especially in the context of its Global South interactions. By foregrounding overseas labour, the paper demonstrates how China embeds its global presence within host-state legal and political frameworks, limiting diplomatic escalation while sustaining long-term partnerships. In doing so, the paper advances a place-sensitive account of South–South migration diplomacy and contributes to broader debates of China's global influence. At the same time, the analysis problematizes the costs of cooperation, particularly for overseas workers' protection and well-being. It highlights how the cooperative orientation marks a significant departure from the largely unquestioned assumption for state interference on behalf of citizens beyond national borders. To develop the arguments, the paper employs a mixed-methods approach, combining computational scraping of media outputs, qualitative field interviews and interpretative contrapuntal reading.

Turkish migration to Germany has been the largest-scale labour migration in postwar Europe, yet scant attention has been paid to the return flow to Turkey, and even less to the second generation's ‘return’. This paper rectifies this oversight and focuses specifically on the role of place in shaping the post-return experiences of the second generation relocating to their parents' homeland. Based on narrative interviews with 71 returnees, we find that different outcomes await those relocating to the megalopolis of Istanbul, the tourist hub of Antalya, and a range of provincial towns. Istanbul offers the widest spectrum of job opportunities, especially to those with higher-level qualifications. Antalya is attractive to returnees with low qualifications who are easily able to find work in the tourist economy and enjoy an ‘alternative’ lifestyle. Those who move to the provincial locations in northern, central and eastern Turkey are following family migration networks but face more difficulties accessing the labour market and adapting to a more ‘traditional’ society. Return outcomes are influenced by the positionalities of returnees, where the interplay of gender, class and social location in specific places shapes diverse return experiences.