融入新阶层还是适应新生活——对农村流动人口社会融合的新探索

Integrate into Urban Society or Adapt to Urban Life——A Study on Rural Migrants in Beijing

北京农村流动人口精英阶层的社会网络、社会流动及社会融合的交互影响关系中,我们选取微观层面的个人日常生活轨迹和交往圈层分析社会融合问题。研究发现,社会流动会在很大程度上重构流动者的关系网络,提升其网络质量,但是这种提升是有限度的。他们的社会融合更多的是与同类群体的同化过程,其经济成功并没有促使他们融入城市群体。虽然不被当地人接纳,但数量庞大的同类群体的存在,为他们适应城市生活提供了强有力的支持。

This paper explored the social integration of successful rural migrants in Beijing. It has been shown that the geographical and social mobility of the interviewees has changed the structure of their social networks a great deal. The businesspeople no longer kept in touch with the vast majority of their old ties,especially those who could not move upwards at the same pace. This caused a significant change of their social circles. Yet,despite the significant change,their social circles were mainly limited to rural migrants. Few of them had established contact with local people in Beijing. The economic success of these migrants in general did little in facilitating their social integration into local community. However,this goes without saying that the rejection on the part of local people means that these businesspeople were socially isolated. Instead,given the large number of rural migrants in Beijing,they still enjoyed lots of opportunities to socialize with people in similar positions to themselves.