China's internal rural-urban migrants experience social exclusion that may have significant
mental health implications. This has historically been exacerbated by the hukou system …

Place attachment, as an important emotional and functional bond between people and
place, has received extensive attention in the early-21st century. This trend is especially …

Urban village regeneration has been considered an effective way to achieve the vision of
transforming the arrival cities in China to affordable cities. However, the existing research …

Temporary populations–tourists, temporary stayers, non-resident students–constitute a
substantial share of many cities' inhabitants. Their implications are normally the object of …

Social epidemiological studies have long understood housing as a social determinant of
mental health. However, most studies have focused on the formal housing sector and the …

Objective According to routine activity theory and crime pattern theory, crime feeds on the
legal routine activities of offenders and unguarded victims. Based on this assumption, the …

In Chinese cities, rural migrant workers are usually considered consumers with the lowest
purchasing power. Nevertheless, the younger generation of rural migrants, who are …

This introductory article to the special issue discusses some of the latest trends in migration
research in urban China and focuses on three areas which have generated new …

Identity transition is a key process of migrant social integration into the host society. Inspired
by acculturation theories on international immigrants, this study investigates migrants' self …

The existing literature on migrants' place attachment tends to focus on neighbourhoods.
Migrants' sense of belonging to the host city may vary in different residential …