Bringing city size in understanding the permanent settlement intention of rural–urban migrants in China

• Published in: Population space and place Vol. 26; no. 4
• Main Authors: Liu, Tao, Wang, Jiejing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2020
• Subjects: Cities; Citizenship; Local government; Migrants; Rationality; Reforms; Urbanization; China

China's recent hukou reform provides opportunities for rural–urban migrants to acquire formal citizenship and for the country's urbanisation to step into a fair and humanistic stage. However, the between‐city variation in migrants' intention of hukou transfer and the heterogeneity of...