Institutional Trust and Native Resilience:Presentations and Reflections of Rural Migrant Workers Returning to Their Hometowns to Build Houses
Contrast to the construction of urban commercial housing is the rapid growth of rural self-built housing.Previous studies have attributed it to a passive choice that rural migrant workers are constrained by the urban household registration and face enormous financial pressure to buy houses,which is why they are forced to return to their hometowns to build houses.However,this does not explain the phenomenon of migrant workers"both buying houses in the city and returning to their hometowns to build houses".This paper finds that driven by the restrictive protection of the system and the endogeneity of culture,the return of migrant workers to their hometowns for homestead construction is an active,rational,and economic decision made with family centrism as the core.In different degrees of coupling between culture and system,three typical types are presented:going with the flow,turf-occupying and sentiment-dominated.The counter-urbanization of population movement,the modernization of housing layout,the re-majorization of family structure,and the resulting renewal of villages in the context of the return to the countryside to build homes have ameliorated the hollowing out of the countryside to a certain extent,which has strengthened the trust of migrant workers in the system and increased the native resilience.However,in the future,it is still necessary to pay attention to many issues behind this phenomenon in conjunction with the localized practice of rural revitalization:fairness and justice in the allocation of rural land resources,the reform of the rural household registration system,the construction of age-friendly communities,the safety supervision of self-built houses,and the inheritance and innovation of local culture.
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