The Urban New Immigrants' Social Inclusion: Internal structure , present situation and influential factors

Based on data from a survey of urban new immigrants in Shanghai in 2007, this paper utilizes exploratory factor analysis to explore the internal structure and influential factors of their social inclusion .The results show that:(1)the so urban new immigrants' include 4 factors, namely , cultural inclusion, psychological inclusion , identity inclusion and economic inclusion;(2)the overall level of their social inclusion is still low ;(3) the degree of these factors present decreasing trend from

psychological inclusion to identity inclusion, cultural inclusion and economic inclusion . These results reflect that :(1) the domestic immigrants as well as the international immigrants call for some limited leap to achieve integrating into the new land in deed;(2) as an immigrant area , Shanghai provides larger development space for the new comers to advance their socioeconomic status , which explains the status of the psychological inclusion and identity inclusion;(3) the pluralism of urban culture may promote the cultural inclusion and economic inclusion of the newer , while the increasing cost of city life may have an opposite effect.Therefore, the high_level integration of the newer and the native depends on the joint efforts of the newer , the native residents and the local government .

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