MIGRATION OVER THE LIFE COURSE AND LATER-LIFE DEPRESSION IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Nan Zhang · 2023
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Description
Nan Zhang mapped in 2023 how a lifetime of moving between China's villages and cities echoes in depression after sixty. Where a person holds registration, the hukou, decides much in China, and an urban hukou carries real advantage. Growing old carries the whole history of those moves, or of their absence.
Drawing on a national retirement survey, the solo study separates migration's timing from its type: moving house is one thing, and switching hukou status another. Both tracked with later depression scores. Urbanization in place, where the village becomes urban around its people, linked to lower scores, and the link ran strongest when it happened in middle age, in the finding reported. Readers get a life-course lesson: the mental health of old age is partly written by the moves of youth.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nan Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |