Research On Social Integration Problems Of New Immigrants In Cities

In recent years, the immigrant phenomenon is globally played attention to, and thephenomenon of new immigrants also is played due attention in cities of our country. As aforce in building cities in our county, new immigrants integrate the urban society to bear themission of the new urbanization movement, which is significant for resolving the trouble ofthe urban-rural dual structure in our country. The social integration of new immigrants incities will meet the temporal need of the modernization and the urbanization, and meet theactual needs of the harmonious society construction, and improve their own survival anddevelopment. By referring the study outcomes at home and abroad, the research had built adual dimension ‘structure-function’ social integration theoretical mode, and used thequalitative research method to analyze the empirical datum about the study object newimmigrants in City S by the interview way.With the social integration of new immigrants in City S on the expression for the structuredimension of individual capability, social network, institution and culture, and the functiondimension of the economic (the material security), the political (the right and interestdemand), the social (the emotional identification), between which there was nine aspects, theresearch revealed nine problems. These problems included the individual restrict, thedependent development, the institutional fringe, the destructive protest, the scarce socialnetwork, the institutional joint, the floating belonging, the involution communication, thesolidifying identification, and so on. These problems derived from the interaction among theindividual capability factor majoring the human capital, the social network majoring socialcapital, and the institution and culture majoring the environmental ecology. Hence, only tostrengthen the individual capability to promote human capital, to expand the social network toincrease social capital, and to renovate the institution and culture to optimize the socialecology, the problems of the social integration for new immigrants shall be resolved, and theywill integrate the city society.