Enhancing capabilities and promoting empowerment: How do follow-up support measures affect urban resettled household integration in China?

《Enhancing capabilities and promoting empowerment: How do follow-up support measures affect urban resettled household integration in China?》

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作者单位: School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China;School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China;School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China;College of Tourism, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, 362021, China;School of Political Science and Public Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, 362021, China;Department of Geography and City & Regional Planning, California State University, Fresno, CA, USA;UniSA STEM Unit, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA;Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal;Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA;Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University, 99 University Avenue, Mackintosh Corry Hall E230, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada;University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam;Faculty of Political Science, School of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China;Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China

摘要: Poverty alleviation resettlement (PAR) is a key poverty reduction initiative that has resettled nearly 9.6 million impoverished people during the tenure of China's 13th Five-Year Plan. Beginning in 2019 additional follow-up support measures have also been implemented to help resettled households integrate into their new communities. However, the question remains as to what extent these extra measures have actually aided in integration. In this paper, we consider not only the multi-dimensionality of the integration process but also how the diverse aspects of resettled households shape the integration process. Drawing on extensive primary data from 993 survey households collected at three cities in Shaanxi, China, along with a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM), we systematically examine whether the PAR follow-up support measures have actually helped resettled household integration. Our results show that family capabilities and empowerment are both fundamental to ensuring integration and that the follow-up support measures did indeed help to improve these elements. Furthermore, we find that enhancing capabilities through follow-up support measures can facilitate resettled households to integrate both psychologically and economically and that empowerment has a large positive effect on social integration.