Patterns of migrant community formation in China's megaurban Pearl River Delta (PRD) - linking informal dynamics, governability and global change

• Antragstellerinnen: Professorin Dr. Bettina Gransow; Professorin Dr. Frauke Kraas
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Humangeographie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2006 bis 2016
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 31783681

The recent economic transformation in Pearl River Delta/China has resulted in massive megaurbanization, which is at least partly driven by informal processes. To the most severe problems belong the high informal migration and the almost collapsed health-care system. Against this background the research project aims at a deepened understanding of the connection between highly complex and informal megaurban processes - here: the connection and dynamics between flows of informal migration and megaurban health strategies - and the mutual forms and effects of global change as well as the reorganisation of spatial, social, and institutional relationships in the megacities. How are different groups of informal migrants affected by the devastated health care systems, how do different stakeholders react, how are different levels of administration (central and local levels) reacting to this complex interplay of local, national and supranational agents, and how does this condition the regime s stability and legitimacy?

• DFG-Verfahren: Schwerpunktprogramme
• Teilprojekt zu: SPP 1233: Megastädte: Informelle Dynamik des Globalen Wandels - Megacities - Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change
• Internationaler Bezug: China
• Beteiligte Personen: Professor Dr. Desheng Xue; Professor Dr. Daming Zhou