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• Title:
  Livelihood adaptation and life satisfaction among land-lost farmers: Critiquing China’s urbanisation-driven land appropriation
• Creator:
  Tong, Weiming;
  Zhu, Liyuan;
  Lo, Kevin
• Description:
  Large-scale rural land appropriation and displacement, driven by the unprecedented urban growth currently experienced in China, has created millions of land-lost peasants who live in the city but remain culturally, socially and institutionally rural. The situation has attracted growing attention in the literature because of its negative social impact, but relatively few studies have addressed how land-lost farmers adapt to urban ways of life and what factors influence their life satisfaction. In this paper, we investigate the predictors of livelihood adaptation and life satisfaction of land-lost farmers from a land appropriation case in the city of Changchun, Northeast China. The results show that, five years after the  appropriation, livelihood adaptation remained very difficult and life satisfaction was poor among the resettlers. Furthermore, marginalised groups, such as those  who were older, less educated and from smaller families, and those with lower pre-displacement income were less likely to have a higher income level after resettlement, resulting in a lower level of life satisfaction. Women also had lower life satisfaction than men. The study highlights an urgent need to improve China’s unjust land appropriation policy with a particular focus on attending to the needs of marginalised groups.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Date:
  2019.12.31
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Quantitative
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; No. 46 (2019): December; 149-161;
  Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; Nr 46 (2019): December; 149-161;
  2083-8298;
  1732-4254
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/21295/24551
• Subject:
  Land-lost farmers;
  livelihood adaptation;
  life satisfaction;
  land appropriation and displacement;
  China
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/21295
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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  other