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The Role of Religion, Wealth, and Livelihoods in the Hunting Practices of Urban and Rural Inhabitants in Western Amazonia
Hunting by rural and urban populations is essential for securing access to protein and other nutrients throughout the tropics. The hunting patterns...
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Urban-Rural Disparity in the Relationship Between Geographic Environment and the Health of the Elderly
As the aged population increases, the health of seniors (aged 60 years and over) is particularly important for the development of a healthy China,...
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Current State of Knowledge on Health-Related Issues Among Migrants
This chapter reviews the literature related to the research themes and issues. There are three major parts in this chapter. The first part is a...
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What makes Chinese rural migrants self-employed: a qualitative perspective
This study scrutinizes the causes, configuration, and consequences of rural migrants’ motivations for becoming self-employed. It aims to solve two...
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Urban–rural gap and regional inequality of local household income in Jiangsu Province, China
This paper examines the update patterns of urban–rural gap and regional inequality within Jiangsu Province from a perspective of local household...
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Promoting the Development of Urban–Rural Integration
President Xi Jinping's important exposition on the development of urban–rural integration is based on a scientific analysis of the problems faced by...
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Constraints on Health and Health Services Access: One Class of Migrants?
This chapter is the first empirical analysis chapter. Drawing on the data gathered from the fieldwork, this chapter gives an original account of...
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Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU
Migrants’ integration process and their labour market inclusion occur within distinct local contexts. However, the existing literature has paid...
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The Education-to-Work Transition of Young Rural–Urban Migrants in Kathmandu, Nepal
This article examines the experiences of youth transitioning from education to work, within the specific context of rural–urban migration in Nepal....
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Dalit Migrants Assertion, Emancipation, and Social Change
This book offers a detailed narrative of Dalit migrants' everyday experience in urban areas with regard to the availability and accessibility of...
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Research on the Measurement and Effects of Urban–Rural Integration and Modernization in National Central Cities
In promoting China’s comprehensive modernization in pursuit of the grand revitalization of the Chinese nation, the relationship between industry and...
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Spaces of Decoupling in the Netherlands and Poland: Emerging Local Governance Networks for Hosting Non-EU Migrants in Peripheral and Shrinking Areas
A significant share of migration studies is dedicated to understanding how large cities in Europe deal with the influx of international migrants,...
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Stuck in the Suburbs? Socio-spatial Exclusion of Migrants in Shanghai
Migrants’ residential location plays a critical role in their social integration process. In China, large numbers of rural-to-urban migrants are...
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Location and Provision of Support from Migrants to Left-behind Parents in Rural Cambodia
Cambodia is a country where labor migration has been consistently high, particularly out of rural areas. Migration increases the distance between...
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Geographical structure of the local segregation of migrants in (sub)urban China
Unprecedented urbanisation in China has profoundly reshaped the country’s social-spatial structure. Owing to economic suburbanisation and urban...
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Housing differentiation from the spatial opportunity structure perspective: an empirical study on new-generation migrants in China
Using data from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamics Survey, this study employs generalized structural equation modeling to examine the effects of...
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Rural–urban migration and its impact on environment and health: evidence from Cumilla City Corporation, Bangladesh
The key objective of this study is to analyze the determinants of migration in the study area with respect to push and pull factors. At the same...
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Have housing prices contributed to regional imbalances in urban–rural income gap in China?
High housing prices and the urban–rural income gap are two important social problems that China is facing currently. Due to the imbalance of regional...
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The Social Impact of COVID-19 on Migrants in Urban Africa
This paper explores the social impacts of COVID-19 on migrants living in three major African cities: Accra, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. Given the...
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“Homelessness and Health Problems Are Not Distinct:” the Challenges of Rural-Urban Migrant Homeless Older People in Ethiopia
Compared with western countries, research on homelessness among older people in developing nations is minimal. Unlike in Global North nations that...
