Ecological Analyses of Permanent and Temporary Migration Streams in China in the 1990s |
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| Authors: | Poston Dudley L Zhang Li |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, 311 Academic Building, College Station, TX 77840-4351, USA;(2) L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, 923 W. Franklin St., Richmond, VA 23284-2028, USA |
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| Abstract: | Using data from China’s Fifth National Census of 2000, we analyze the dynamics of China’s inter-provincial permanent and temporary
migration streams for the 1995–2000 period. The permanent and temporary migration streams are shown to have similar patterns,
but the volume of the temporary migration streams greatly outnumbers that of the permanent streams. A human ecological model
of migration is proposed and tested, and its results are compared with those of a gravity model of migration. Of the various
ecological variables examined in the models, investment levels at destination, and being a coastal province at destination,
all have strong effects on migration. The effects of the independent variables are more similar than different with regard
to predicting the permanent and the temporary migration streams. |
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| Keywords: | Migration Human ecology China Streams |
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