Spatial Mobility And Rational Choice

Rural to urban migration appeared inevitable in the process of urbanization and industrialization. In Western countries, this migration is the single type of labor migration. Labor migration also complete the conversion of the job and space. In China, industrialization and urbanization, China's special strategies, special structural constraints such as the household registration system, make labor migration presented "pendulum-type" moving back and forth. After moving into cities, Migrant workers their faced two choices of Return hometown and leave the city.The financial crisis of the second half in 2008, A large number of migrant workers are under the impact of the financial crisis of unemployment and return home. China ushered in a rare wave of unemployment and the return tide. Nevertheless, some migrant workers have not given up the city, they continue to look for opportunities to stay in the city.Financial crisis bring the impact of various degrees to employment and the psychological aspects of migrant workers. How to avoid the risk of financial crisis and what kind of migration pattern of behavior to choose connect with the macro-structural factors and the capital which farmers workers control and own. Therefore, I tried to start from the micro level, take migrant workers in the rational choice as the main line, Combine of quantitative and qualitative research methods to seek causes of behavior choice of migrant workers under the financial crisis.The results showed: Migrant Workers showed different impact in the financial crisis because their own different capital. Migrant workers use their own capital to avoid the risk. This behavior selection strategy is a rational act, not only reflected in the survival of rational choice, but more prominent economic role of rationality and social rationality. Different types of migrant workers choose different modes of behavior and migration behavior.They Performant of "returning to their roots" type, "putting down roots" type and urban and rural wandering type. Migration of peasant workers make choices consistenting with their own maximum benefitis according to their endowments and awareness for the rural and urban and constrained by a number of structural elements.