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| RESEARCH ON THE LINGNAN CULTURAL INTEGRATION OF THE RURAL MIGRANT BASED ON CITY ADAPTATION |
| GAN Qiao-lin1, XU Min-lin2 |
1. Department of Tourism Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. College of Geography Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China |
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Abstract For a long time, urban integration of the rural migrant is a hot topic in urban studies. In recent years, many scholars in this field have paid much attention to the cultural adaptation of the rural migrant, but these studies have not extended further to the process of the cultural adaptation, such as Lingnan cultural adaptation. Scholars believe that three adaptations are included in the urban integration of the rural migrant. They are economic, social and cultural adaptation. That is, based on the living conditions and occupational status, the rural migrant first get used to city life to expand exchanges with the local people,and then live and act on the same principles. However, the rural migrant are excluded from the mainstream of urban life by the household register system, because they have to face a lot of city adaptation and cultural integration difficulties. Identity of different groups determines the communication with the local community, the different cultural adaptation and adjustment mechanism. There is no doubt that the rural migrant will be impressed by different cultural factors while contacting with different cultures. Owing to the abstract nature, it is difficult to define Lingnan culture. Therefore a survey finds out four main points of cultural view of the rural migrant, which are life commercialization, openness, practical act and lack of human feeling. Starting with these four perception points, our research perspective based on the economic, social and cultural adaptation of non-local workers has been build up. The adaptation to the local life, the association with local residents and the impression of the Lingnan culture identity are our three main survey dimensions. A questionnaire survey also has been adopted to evaluate the Lingnan culture cognition and to analyze the adaptation paradigm. Finally, the conclusions have been found out as follows: 1)Economic, social and cultural adaptation of the rural migrant take on different characteristic. 2)Rural migrants show flexible cultural integration strategy. 3)Cultural adaptation of the rural migrant is now in a relatively stable state.
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Received: 12 January 2009
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2010, Vol. 25 
