A Study On The Factors Influencing Migrant 'Workers' Social Distance To Urban Residents

With the increasing number of migrant workers,the social integration of migrant workers and urban residents has become an important issue in the process of urbanization.Social distance is the psychological representation of the close relationship between migrant workers and urban residents,which has an important influence on the degree and validity of migrant workers' urban integration.In this paper,a comprehensive analysis of the use of hierarchical linear models on the micro-individual factors and macro background factors,in order to investigate the more migrant workers to city residents' social distance factors.The study found that individual factors,such as economic status differences,individual social security,residence,identity,education level will affect migrant workers social distance to city residents.The effect and the existing empirical research results are consistent.The study also found that economic income difference and household registration structure are the important macro factors influencing migrant workers'social distance to urban residents,narrowing the difference of economic income and expanding the conversion of household structure can narrow the social distance and promote the society fusion of migrant workers and urban residents.In addition,this study also found that the level of social development,the protection of labor interests weakened the living area and identity on the impact of social distance,which also indirectly play a certain role in promoting the urbanization of migrant workers.