Research On Social Identity Of Two Decade Migrants

CONTEXT: In China, some people migrate with the other family members, Some of them have worked in the urban for several years. Those make it important that the immigrants be absorbed into the citizens. More studies on social identity of the migrants must be practised. We had seen some of those studies, However, those studies didn't tell the differential social identity between the immigrant children and the grow-ups. The differents should be studied more deeply and the correlation between the social identity of two gaps should be touched on.METHODS: Data for analysis came from 2,083 children and 1,735 parents who participated in the 2006 Daxing Distrct and Shijingshan Distrct in Beijing Survey. The Survey is on immigrant children education and social identity. Crosstable was used to analyse the data, Factor Analysis and Canonical Correlation Analysis were adapted too.RESULTS: There were several differents between the social identity of immigrant children and the social identity of grow-ups. The differents resulted from migrants' appreciation to the different zones. Year, education, family and other factors were associated with the differents. According to the CCA results, there was a delicate but position correlation between the two gaps' social identity. If migrant grow-ups more wanted to stay in beijing than before, and they more associated with people from other places than before, made more friends in beijing, had more kind of friends, the immigrant children would have a better impress on people and classmates in beijing, they would have more friends in beijing.CONCLUSION: When we treat the immigrant children, we maynot forget the grow-ups who asscociated with the children in social identity.