1. A Peasant or Not? A Test of Chinese Rural Laborers' Identity status and Their Cultivated Land.
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Jie Zhang, Guangqian Cai, and Hennessy, Dwight A.
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SOCIAL adjustment ,PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation ,PERCEIVED benefit ,URBAN growth ,COMMUNITY centers - Abstract
Background: Urbanization in China was traditionally intended to lead to comprehensive city development. Peasant laborers must achieve psychological and social adaptation to realize individual urbanization. Aims: The aim of this paper is to identify the factors affecting identity status among Chinese rural laborers. Methods: Survey data for this paper is drawn from the Survey Data of Rural Laborers in the Pearl River Delta in 2006 dataset, through the Center for Social Survey, Sun Yat-sen University. Multinomial logistic regression is used to test the data, with identity status as the IV (controlling for demographic factors) and retaining cultivated land and self-meaning as DV. Results: Identity status predicts retention of cultivated land but not self-meaning. Specifically, peasants are more likely to retain land than citizens and non-peasants. Citizens do not demonstrate greater self-meaning than peasants. Conclusions: Rural laborers who identify as peasants are more likely to retain cultivated land which highlights its personal, social, and cultural value. The fact that rural laborers who identify as citizens do not show greater self-meaning suggests that many of the perceived benefits of citizenship may be counteracted by the struggles faced during this transition (such as loss of land and previous social ties). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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