Counter-Migrazation, Social Capital And Social Structure's Bi-directional Interaction

Researches of migrants are the hotpoint in the academe, most of which put migrants in the two poles of traditional-modern and rural-urban continuum and premise that the migrants must achieve adaptation by means of assimilation.This paper tries to break the assimilation and non-assimilation dualistic model of migrants' social adaptation, avoid putting them in the macroscopical background of urbanization and citizenization, avoid premising that they should accept and adapt the local society and culture, investigate the counter-migrazation tendency in the process of social adaptation which the migrants still identify with the primary culture, value and life style with non-zero-sum model of assimilation.The analysis of this paper is based mainly on qualitative study of the deep interviews and subordinately on quantitative study of the data. By above analysis, the main conclusion of this paper is following: the social adaptation model of new labor migrants in Shanghai, including occupation structure, inhabitation space, language use and social communication, is a different adaptation model from migrazational social adaptation. The new labor migrants aren't more and more like local persons by deep communicating with local and assimilating into local society during adaptation process, but have an adaptation model of coexistence without assimilation, which maintain their own life style and value. The counter-migrazation tendency includes that the new labor migrants interact superficially with the local society and deeply with consubstantial migrants group and that the informal interpersonal relation of migrants group meets all kinds of migrants' requirement.Then, author analyses how the counter-migrazation social adaptation model come into being. In the face of institutional exclusion and economic imbibing, the new labor migrants make use of social capital in their own networks to circumambulate institutional exclusion in policy settings and seek for structural position in industry patterns, which adopt an adaptation way of objective accepting and subjective alteration. On the background of migrates' low human capital, migrates networks, as social capital, interact with policy settings and industry patterns, as social structure, which finally forms counter-migrazation social adaptation model of new labor migrant.