Citation

Xi J. Soc. Sci. Med. 2016; 157: 78-86.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-1905, USA. Electronic address: jx@uakron.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.03.045

PMID

27064655

Abstract

Focusing on China's Three Gorges Project (TGP)-Induced Resettlement, the largest scale resettlement induced by a single development project, this study aims to investigate different types of integration patterns among the TGP re-settlers and how modes of integration associate with depressive symptoms. Using Latent Class Analysis, we analyzed survey data on 407 TGP re-settlers. We detected three integration patterns among these re-settlers: the fully integrated (68%), the culturally and economically integrated (21%) and the unintegrated (11%). We found that different integration types were linked to different levels of depressive symptoms. Unless fully integrated and experienced a warm feeling toward new community, re-settlers were vulnerable to elevated depressive symptoms. Our findings that culturally and economically integrated re-settlers had similar levels of depressive symptoms as the unintegrated re-settlers highlighted the importance of subjective dimension of integration and resettlement. We also found that rural re-settlers and those who move with the whole village were more likely to fall into the unintegrated category. Policy implications were discussed.

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Language: en