From Mobility to Settlement: Evolution of Inter-generational Migrant Families to Realize Family Migration

Abstract

In China, since the 18th National Congress, the policies of citizenization system have been basically improved, and the urbanization rate has continued to improve. However, family migration from one generation to another is still incomplete. Based on the theory of new migration economy, the evolution model of inter-generational double population on family migration is constructed, evolutionary analysis on the action of double population to realize transformation from mobility to family migration is made. Studies have shown that it is probable for inter-generational migrant families to realize family migration because of joint employment advantages of two generations of laborers. Therefore, at this stage, it is necessary to make full use of the favorable period of cross-integration of family migration and inter-generational migration in order to promote inter-generational migrant families to migrate the whole family at first and achieve the goal of 100 million rural residents being changed into urban residents. The system simulation further shows that it still takes several years or ten years to achieve family migration. Some methods are meaningful to accelerate the process. And the methods include improving income of inter-generational migrant family moving between urban and rural areas, reducing the cost increment and income spillover of family migration efforts of various groups, strengthening the joint efforts taken by dual-populations to achieve family migration, and accelerating the rate of return of joint efforts. However, if considering the cost of housing purchases, inter-generational migrant families cannot settle in cities. Based on the above, the reasons in terms of the implementation of citizenship system policies such as household registration system, residence permit system and equalization of public services are analyzed, and optimization measures are proposed.