中国城乡流动人口“回流”研究进展与述评

人口流动折射人地关系,在地理学"流动性"转向和全球化背景下,人口流动研究尤其是中国流动人口回流的研究意义愈发凸显。本文以知网核心期刊文献为基础,进行计量分析,从主题、理论演变、研究方法等角度对我国流动人口回流研究进行系统梳理,发现当前研究主要关注的主题包括：乡村发展、政策制度、社会问题、倾向选择、群体差异等,涉及回流人口基本特征、回流动力、回流时机、回流影响等关键问题,对回流空间的研究相对不足;已有研究重视人力资本、国家体制对流动人口回流的影响,较为缺少对于家庭、市场、社会维度的深入分析,研究框架有待进一步完善;重视群体尺度研究,个体尺度的深入实证相对薄弱。未来应积极探索建立跨学科视角的流动人口回流研究框架,重视空间格局、回流机制、回流与城乡发展的互动等方面的研究,加强个体尺度的实证。

A LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE STUDY ON RETURN FLOATING POPULATION IN CHINA

The great rural-urban population mobility in post-reform China reflects the dynamic human-land relationship, the core of the geography. Against the background of globalization, China’s industrial transformation and upgrading, and "mobility turn" in geography, rural-urban floating population, especially the returnees, is playing an important role in urban and rural development. The return floating population emerged in the late 1990 s in China, but it has not gained much attention of academia. Based on the extensive literature obtained from the core journals included in Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI), this paper reviews the research progresses of rural-urban return floating population from three aspects, which are the evolution of research topics, the theories and research methods. The main findings are as following: 1)The current research focuses on five topics including rural development, policies, social issues, preferences,and group differences. 2) Four major issues have been examined: The characteristics of returnees, mechanism of returning, reflux timing and effects of return floating population. 3) Existing studies have emphasized the impact of human capital and the state. 4) The population-level research has been the focus of the study. Yet the individual-level research should be strengthened. Based on the literature review above, we discuss the future development trend: 1) Centering on individual-, family-, community-, regional-level and state, market, society in the mechanism of returning to develop an interdisciplinary theoretical framework. 2)Research on return spatial pattern. 3) Examine the relationship between returnees and the development strategies of new urbanization, rural revitalization.