Real Adaption or Not: New Generation Internal Migrant Workers Social Adaption in China

The new generation of migrant workers, who is currently in the key stage of adapting to flow-in area, has become a social group that cannot be ignored in China cities. This paper aims at finding out the social adaption situation of the new generation of migrant workers in China’s urbanization progress,.
The data is from New Generation of Migrant Workers Research (2011) conduced in January 2011. The research studies 1201 migrant workers from 24 provinces or cities in China by questionnaire and in-depth interview.
To establish the social adaption level, the author set the index of social adaption with the new generation migrant workers. The index system includes three classes, which is about 5 points: assimilation ability, identity recognition, social acceptation, fairness of adaption, and home-leaving.According to the research, Chinese new generation migrant workers have reached 51% overall. In the aspect of self-evaluation, with the situation of leaving-hometown and the fairness of adaption is higher, while the assimilation ability and identity recognition level is lower, self-recognition element of social acceptation is medium. Select personal characteristics, family characteristics, as well as social capital & human capital as the three different variables to explore the influences according to Logistic Regression.