Study On The Influence Of Land Rights And Place Attachment On Migrant Workers’ Settlement Behavior Choice

Migrant workers are the unique product of China’s urban-rural dual structure.With the advancement of urbanization,a large number of migrant agricultural population has flooded into cities.It is an irresistible trend to promote human-centered urbanization and accelerate the citizenization of migrant agricultural population.However,under the background of the current deepening the reform of the rural land system,land rights and interests of farmers and the growing importance,the property and the realization of the protection rights and interests of migrant workers migrant workers is not willing to give up easily home land,and for the land that attachment and nostalgia that interweave,a large part of the group of them don’t even want to settle town complete urbanization.Therefore,in the urbanization and new rural revitalization strategy under the background of the two countries,this study from the body of the citizenization of---,migrant workers as the research object,this paper studies relationship with rural migrant workers,especially the land and the degree of the contact namely for rural place attachment,and land rights and interests,and the influence of place attachment on the peasant worker’s settling down in workers’ behavior choice,make clear place attachment effect on the behavior of migrant workers to settle in the land plays the role of the mechanism,and how to use these places attached to guide people to accept the change of the environment and status,which can be actively involved in the process of urbanization.In this paper,fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method,analysis of variance,logit test,mediating effect analysis(stepwise regression method,Sobel method,bootstrap method)and moderating effect analysis are used to analyze more than 2000 questionnaires obtained from the research group’s survey of rural workers in three places in southern Jiangsu(Changzhou,Suzhou and Wuxi)in 2016.In 2174 valid samples,1838 migrant workers have settled in the city,accounting for 84.54%,and 336 have not settled,accounting for15.46%.It can be seen that settling in the city has become the choice of the vast majority of migrant workers.The explanatory variables include land rights and local attachment;Analysis of the factors affecting the degree of local attachment;Secondly,the impact of land rights and local attachment on the settlement behavior of farmers in public works sites;Analysis of the role of local attachment in the process of land rights and interests affecting farmers’ settlement behavior choice of public works sites.The main conclusions are as follows :(1)Generational attachment has become the most important demographic factor affecting the degree of place attachment.For migrant workers,generation can be said to be the most important demographic factor affecting most behavioral logic of migrant workers,and the effect of place attachment is no exception.Through the calculation of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method,it can be seen that the degree of attachment of the old generation of migrant workers to the rural place is higher than that of the new generation of migrant workers,and also higher than the value of our overall sample.The older generation of migrant workers not only place attachment level higher than that of new generation,and the mean for the behavior of its settlement is higher than that of new generation and the overall sample,prefer to have settled in behavior,suggests that the peasant worker’s settling down in the degree of place attachment and behaviour are generational differences,and intergenerational factors on the degree of place attachment and settling behavior produce positive influence,the older you get,the higher the degree of place attachment in rural areas,and the easier it is to settle in ’.This seems to be a contradiction,but it is exactly in line with the fact that the urbanization rate of household registration is not high,and many migrant workers are semi-urban.They are full of hope for urban life,but also have deep feelings for the countryside.They cannot bear to give up the hidden benefits of rural household registration,and look forward to returning to the countryside for retirement.In addition to generation,gender,educational level and current housing satisfaction also have a significant impact on the degree of place attachment.(2)Contracted land is an important positive influencing factor of place attachment and site settlement behavior choice.Family farm income represented by the contracting on the ground of economic output is significant for the influence of place attachment,so that the economic value of land makes the migrant workers produced a strong place dependence,therefore,in the process of urbanization,land rights are the higher level of security,the higher the economic output of the land,the stronger the cognitive properties on the function of land,for the influence of place attachment is bigger.Contracted land is the driving force for migrant workers to settle down in cities.As an important physical environment variable,land has always been a factor of production that farmers depend on for survival.But if have contracted land in the rural areas,the cognitive and has a relatively stable land rights and ownership,it gave the peasant worker’s settling down in greater confidence,because they don’t need to worry about after settling down in city will lose their land,which to a certain extent,reflects the country is not mandatory migrant workers out of the policy implications "separation".(3)Place attachment has a negative impact on migrant workers’ settlement behavior in construction sites.The place attachment between migrant workers and rural areas is mainly manifested as the functional attachment to the physical environment to meet their living needs and living environment requirements(place dependence),and the emotional attachment accompanied by memory and temperature(place identity).Whether implicit or explicit variables are used in the model,the results have a negative effect.That is to say,the more attached migrant workers are to the countryside,the less willing they are to quit the land and settle down in the construction site.From the descriptive statistical results,yet settled in ’place attachment degree above has been settled in groups,can be seen from the empirical results,a symbol of the place attachment of show variables,the number of home and identity recognition for settling behavior has a negative influence,also verified the theory from the data.(4)Place attachment has both mediating and moderating effects on the influence of land on settlement behavior choice.Specifically,the mediating effect means that the contracted land further influences the settlement behavior choice by affecting the identity cognition of migrant workers,while the moderating effect means that the more times migrant workers go back to their hometown,the weaker or decisive role the contracted land ownership cognition plays in the settlement behavior,and the greater the instability.The identity cognition has a positive moderating effect on family agricultural annual income,and the direction and size of the coefficient remain unchanged,but the significant increase.Land is not only linked to economic interests,but also carries the memory of farmers’ ancestors,which has a special emotion and significance for them.With the gradual input and attention of the country to the agriculture,rural areas and farmers,the visible and invisible blessing attached to the rural land or household registration and the local attachment to the countryside will be the factors that affect whether migrant workers choose to settle down and work site.