A Case Study Of Social Integration And Governance Of Transitional Communities Of Land-lost Farmers From The Perspective Of Symbiosis

With the rapid development of urbanization,the occupation of rural land by the expansion of the urban area is evitable.So more and more farmers will become land-lost farmers because of land acquisition.The government compensates farmers by monetary compensation or property rights replacement.The most common compensation method is the relocation of land-lost farmers to resettlement residential area,which is organized and offered by the government and can be regarded as the transitional communities for land-lost farmers.It is the result of the rapid development of modernization and urbanization,covering the characteristics of both rural area and urban area,however it is neither a complete urban community,nor a traditional rural community.In this process,land-lost farmers in such communities have experienced the change of identities,from “rural residents” to “urban residents”,and their living environment and lifestyle have also been changed passively.On the other hand,land-lost farmers only get compensation on the material level and seldom on the psychological identities,social integration,and civilization,which leads to the maladaptation in ideologies,cultural qualities and labor skills.In addition,most of them don't received the same society insurance and security as other urban residents,finally fail to the real integration with urban civilization.This social phenomenon is receiving increasing attention from the academic community.Under the support of symbiotic theory,we assume that the social integration of the land-lost farmers in transitional community is the symbiosis between the land-lost farmers and the urban residents.From the micro-perspective of community level,the land-lost farmers in Shunjiang Community,a cooperative street in the West Hi-tech District of Chengdu,were recruited in our research.Firstly,a social integration evaluation index system was established to evaluate the social integration status of participants and further we concluded they poorly integrated into that community.Then the biological theory-"symbiosis theory" principle and framework were taken into account to explore the symbiotic relationship between land-lost farmers and urban residents.The results indicated that land-lost farmers and urban residents were in an asymmetric symbiotic relationship.Thereafter,we used the logical and methodological practice of the symbiosis theory to analyze the obstacles and restrictions of the symbiosis of land-lost farmers and urban residents.The analysis shows that the factors that are not conducive to social integration are the land-lost farmers and urban residents in the symbiotic unit dimension,the social system and community construction in the symbiotic interface dimension,and the community internal and external environment in the symbiotic environment dimension.Finally,in view of the problems faced by the social integration of land-lost farmers,we propose governance countermeasures to promote the social integration of the land-lost farmers' transitional community from three aspects: the symbiotic unit,the symbiotic interface,and the symbiotic environment.The aim of this research is to analyze the social integration status,discover existing problems and constraints of the land-lost farmers in Shunjiang Community,and try to draw on the value orientation and methodological significance of symbiosis theory to the social integration of land-lost farmers,and to use the symbiotic theory to clarify the process of social integration of land-lost farmers and specific methods,find its restrictive factors,and reconstruct a set of systematic methods for the symbiotic and harmonious development of the social integration of land-lost farmers and urban residents.