Abstract
As a global commercial city in the Pearl River Delta region, Guangzhou has always been one of the most concentrated cities for migrants both from other China’s cities and abroad. On the one hand, a large number of population movements promote the vitality of the city; on the other hand, various social problems arise, such as residential segregation. Residential segregation refers to immigrants and local people because of different features (race, religion, occupation, living habits, cultural tradition, wealth, etc.), leading to similar characteristics of people gather at specific geographical space, separate from the different, and even bring isolation discrimination, hostile attitude. Among them, peasant worker is a unique identity under the two different systems between urban and rural areas in China. They contribute a lot to the urban construction, but has been isolated between urban and rural social security system for a long time. For them, there is no choice but to live in urban villages (villages in the city) with low housing prices, which lag behind the pace of development of the times, are free from modern urban management and have low living standards in the process of rapid urban development. This paper chooses three typical urban villages (Xian village, Pazhou village, Lijiao village) in Guangzhou as the study cases, uses the method of questionnaire survey and depth interviews to obtain first-hand information, and analyses the social inclusion situation and reasons of peasant workers. Firstly, it will study the living conditions, including main residential location, living environment and main forms of residence. Secondly, the self- cognition and willingness to integrate of peasant workers will be investigated. Thirdly, the relationship between peasant workers and local citizens will be discussed. Then, it will analyze a series of social effects, such as gentrification, produced in the regeneration (or renewal) process of urban village and its impact on peasant workers. Finally, it will put forward the justice planning response to vulnerable groups such as migrant workers in the regeneration (or renewal) process of urban village. Preliminary results indicate that: ①Peasant workers and citizens between the main or objective social distance is zero, but the former has a lower sense of self-identity; ②The aggregation and homogeneity of peasant workers in urban villages causes the alienation from the local residents; ③The tolerance and acceptance of both sides tend to strengthen; ④The social inclusion for migrant workers is still at a lower level; ⑤The value orientation of spatial justice for planners in the regeneration (or renewal) process of urban village has become the key to the improvement of the living conditions of vulnerable groups such as peasant workers.…
