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Analysis of Urban Migrants' Intention to Return - Focusing on Guangdong Province, China -

중국 대도시 이주민의 귀향 인식 분석 - 광둥성 지역을 중심으로 -

  • Jina Yu (Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International college)
  • 유진아 (북경사범대-홍콩침회대 연합대학교 응용경제학과)
  • Received : 2022.10.05
  • Accepted : 2023.01.18
  • Published : 2023.02.28
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Abstract

While economic incentives have led to migration, the failure to adapt to a new city and to ease the financial burden to support families have raised migrants' intention to return to their hometowns. Using the 2016 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this study investigates determinants of migrants' intention to return. Migration at a young age, which is associated with lower barriers to the new culture, and intraprovince migration requiring less effort to adapt to the new city, were associated with lower intention to return. Also, migrants with less burden to support a family tend to have a higher intention to return to rural hometowns. Specifically, migrants with children over 18 years old and fewer family members are likely to return to their hometowns. To revitalize rural economy and reduce the rural-urban disparity, a policy to support migrants with high intention to return will be needed.

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