Research On City Adaptation Of Land-Lost Peasants In Huaian

Urbanization is a revolution in modern history with the development of industrialization.China is now experiencing the revolution.Rapid urbanization is followed by a large number of rural population moving into cities in various reasons. Among them, rural migrant workers who move to city initiatively and policy immigrants who move because of national construction, were both given much attention by experts and scholars,but those land-lost farmers who live in the city community after their land were requisitioned,were seldom involved in the research.How do they feel about their city life, can they adapt to it, These questions should be asked.Huaian, a city in north of Jiangsu province was selected as a site in this article. It was an underdeveloped city in the province. In recent years, with the goal of constructing the center city in northern Jiangsu, Huaian had been promoting its urbanization, so there were tens of thousands land-lost farmers moving into urban communities each year. In this paper, Huaiyin industrial park,in the suburb of Huaian, was selected as the survey site.The investigation was completed in H community,a new resite community for land-lost farmers. Altogether,265 questionnaires were given out,and 265 were recycled,that was to say recovery was 100%,there were 256 effective questionnaires effective recovery was 96.60%. SPSS was used for data processing based on the investigation.This paper firstly introduced the background, based on the research of land-lost farmers conclusion was drawn that existing research about city adaption of land-lost farmers was not systematic and case studies were infrequent. Then related concept was introduced, and theory of cultural change and cultural adaptation, marginalization and peasant's citizenship were introduced to lay a solid theoretical basis for this article. The third part mainly introduced urbanization situation of the research area and basis of the site,and design of the questionaire was briefly introduced. Eventual questionnaire was done through degree of distinction and reliability test of the preliminary questionnaire,then data acquisition was conducted. The fourth and fifth part were the main part of the study. Through the questionnaire, the fourth part analyzed land-lost farmers'city adaption from economic level, lifestyle level, social intercourse level and psychological adjustment level. In the fifth part, influential factors of land-lost farmers to cities were detailedly analyzed, and two patterns of land-lost farmers city adaption were summed up. The last part was conclusions and discussions.It was a conclusion of the above analysis, some suggestions were given, the defects were discussed and and the direction of further study was given.Conclusions of this paper were as follows:Firstly, landless farmers in Huaian could well adapt to their occupation. In the four points of occupational adaption, professional relationships adaption was the best, and psychological adaptation was the worst. Age, educational level and economic income had significant influence on occupational adaptation of the farmers; Income level was better than before, but expenses also increased. Lifestyle adaptation problems were mainly manifested in unaccustomed to living in flat, tedious leisure time, but ways of consumption were gradually converting to city's; Social contacts were still characterized by kinship and geopolitical,having a strong introversion; in the level of psychological adaptation, community belongingness was strong, futural identity was prone to city,but perception of status and identity judgment tended to the countryside.Secondly,there are 2 influence factors influencing land-lost farmers'city adaption, own factor and external factor. Economic income, age, educational level, profession were included in the first one,and rehabilitation mode, defect of implementation of policies, and required enforcement, community management were included in the second one.Thirdly,in the process of land-lost farmers adapting to city, government did not discharge its responsibilities about resettlement work, the publicity should be enhanced, implementation degree did not reach the designated position. Management of communities for land-lost farmers should be strengthened.Fourthly,there were 2 modes for land-lost farmers adapting to city, integrating initiatively and rebuilding rural living environment.Fifthly,to improve land-lost farmers'adaption,the way of limited mixed residency should be popularized. The government should be prepared to relevant policy propaganda work, community should strengthen management, landless peasants should also study, to make themselves melt into the city life as soon as possible.