Previ al Col·loqui, de 10:40 a 11:00h, esteu tots convidats a l’Espai del cafè.

Li Shuzhuo is currently University Professor of Population and Development Policy Studies, Director of the Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, and Consulting Professor at the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University. He is a member of the Social Sciences Committee of Ministry of Education of China. His research is focused on population and development as well as public policies in contemporary transitional China, including population policies, aging and health, migration and urbanization, gender and development, ecosystem services and human wellbeing.

Abstract.- Migration, Integration and Health in China
China’s massive rural-urban migration has produced transformative social, economic, demographic and health consequences. The talk will introduce the background of rural-urban migration and then conceptualize the social integration of rural-urban migrants. The study uses nationally representative data to describe status social integration, and use data from a survey of rural-urban migrants in 2015-2016 in Guangdong province to investigate the link between acculturation and mental health among rural-urban migrants by considering acculturation as a multidimensional and bicultural process. The findings demonstrate that the effects of acculturation on mental health of rural-urban migrants are partially mediated by social support and socioeconomic status but not by perceived stress. The talk will finally discuss the policy implications of the findings.