Geographical structure of the local segregation of migrants in (sub)urban China

Abstract Unprecedented urbanisation in China has profoundly reshaped the country’s social-spatial structure. Owing to economic suburbanisation and urban redevelopment processes, migrants coming from rural areas are increasingly concentrated suburbs rather than city centres. Against this backdrop, paper focuses on residential segregation between locals, geographical (re)structuring centre suburb. Theil’s H Index is used disaggregate migrant of each municipality into a within-suburb, within-centre between-centre-suburb component. We use Census data for 258 municipalities 2000 2010; we find that increased period. ascribe increasing suburban areas, which offsets balanced distribution Segregation centres also slightly Unexpectedly, less economically developed municipalities, defined by their per capita GDP, tend be more segregated counterparts. Less have higher level employment housing opportunities whole municipality, but feature spaces polarised