ABSTRACT
The two dichotomies have significant social consequences and have been studied extensively, but no research has explicitly unraveled the role of the former in shaping the residential profile of the latter. In other words, it is still unknown to what extent chengzhongcun segregate non-hukou migrants from the local hukou holders. To bridge this gap, the empirical analysis that follows provides a consistent depiction of the segregation patterns of population and housing provisions at multiple levels. The analysis explores segregation between privileged hukou holders and underprivileged non-hukou migrants as well as the spatial separation of formal urban housing and chengzhongcun. It further attempts to uncover the connection between the most prominent division in housing and the most prominent division in urban population – a topic with important implications for policy-making, as the central government has been calling for a ‘new style’ of urbanization focused on making cities fairer for migrants.
