Hukou,Mobility and Residential Segregation——A Case Study of Wuhan City
利用2000年武汉人口普查0.1%抽样数据，研究户口和人口流动如何导致不同群体（如本地居民、永久移民、临时移民）在居住空间上的分化与隔离。
The ongoing housing reform and rapid urbanization in Chinese cities have resulted in massive residential mobility and migration, which has resulted in significant spatial sorting among urban neighborhoods. A previously homogenous society that was mainly made of work-unit compounds is being transformed into a society with increasing diversity and stratification, with different types of new communities such as crowded migrant enclaves and affluent gated communities. Residential sorting and segregation is increasing and residential location is becoming a symbol for socio-economic status. This paper studies the impact of hukou, rising mobility and migration on neighborhood differentiation, using the 0.1% survey data in 2000 census in Wuhan. There is significant residential differentiation between groups defined by hukou status and mobility, such as local urban residents who never moved, local residential movers, permanent migrants, and temporary migrants. They live in different parts of the city, and there is low-to-moderate degree of residential segregation between them. While the overall degree of residential segregation is not high compared to the Western standard, segregation for certain groups at certain parts of the city especially at the suburbs is already alarmingly high.