Sainan Lin

Biographic Data

ID3780160
NAMESainan Lin
GIVEN NAMESSainan
FAMILY NAMELin
SIGNATURELIN S
AFFILIATIONSWuhan University
ORCID0000-0002-2426-1139
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS177
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9

  • Tied to home? Emotional attachment, family life cycles and migrants’ return intention to counties in China

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Kaidi LiuARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2026

  • Why do China's young graduates move down the urban ladder

    Open AccessKewei Ding, Sainan Lin et al.ARTICLECities2026References: 40

  • Beyond Homeownership

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Ke Ding et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2025References: 10

    While extensive research has explored the impact of housing tenure on individuals' subjective well‐being (SWB), little is known about the implications of the emerging owner‐renting phenomenon—where homeowners live in rented housing instead of their owned property within the same city—referred to as the ownership‐residence mismatch. This study draws on nationally representative survey data from the 2017 CHFS, supplemented by qualitative interviews…

  • Migration geographical scope and migrant self-employment

    Jiangbin Yin, Sainan Lin et al.ARTICLERegional Studies2025References: 10

  • Individual preferences, jobs, or amenities? Understanding the destination choices of highly and less-skilled migrants in urban China

    Open AccessYu Wang, Sainan Lin et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2024

  • Beyond destinations

    Open AccessYan Guo, Rui Ye et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2023Cited by: 1References: 10

    Moving beyond the prior studies on destinations, this study identifies people's perceptions of and attachments to their places of origin to theoretically address how social groups defined by environmental experiences perceive the environment and how these perceptions affect their attachment. Villages in inland China are empirically examined as shared places of origin for stayers, outmigrants and returnees. This study confirms a positive relations…

  • Towards a constructed order of co-governance

    Open AccessZhilin Liu, Sainan Lin et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2023Cited by: 7References: 43

    The state–society relationship in neighbourhood governance has been a focal topic in the urban governance literature, though the existing scholarship was primarily drawn from non-crisis situations. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, this study investigates the intricate state–society dynamics manifested at the neighbourhood scale as state and societal actors collaborated during China’s COVID-19 responses. Our study reveals a pattern of collaborat…

  • Migrants’ perceived social integration in different housing tenures in urban China

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Fulong Wu et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2023Cited by: 16References: 4

  • Revisiting entrepreneurial governance in China’s urban redevelopment

    Sainan Lin, Xingjian Liu et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2022Cited by: 13References: 5

    The unprecedented scale and varied forms of urban redevelopment in China provide an experimental field for understanding the transformation of urban governance. Noting that existing studies have often focused on coastal or developed Chinese cities, this study examines urban redevelopment in Wuhan, an inland city. We use the Erqi Riverfront Business District (RBD) redevelopment project as a case to examine the evolving entrepreneurial governance i…

  • From hometown to the host city? Migrants' identity transition in urban China

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Fulong Wu et al.ARTICLECities2022Cited by: 9References: 49

  • Where is my home? Sense of home among rural migrant women in contemporary China

    Open AccessShuangshuang Tang, Jing Zhou et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2022Cited by: 20References: 7

  • De-industrialisation in the world’s factory

    Julie T Miao, Nicholas A Phelps et al.ARTICLEInternational Development…2021References: 7

    Analysis of deindustrialisation remains dominated by studies of the OECD countries. The process has only recently been studied in newly industrialised countries and regions yet in a geographically constrained manner, dominated by macro-level, sectorial-based analytical frameworks. China so far has not featured highly in this emerging literature as its deindustrialisation is a more recent phenomenon overshadowed by ongoing industrialisation. This …

  • Collaborative neighborhood governance and its effectiveness in community mitigation to Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessZhilin Liu, Sainan Lin et al.ARTICLECities2021Cited by: 13References: 53

  • From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object

    Open AccessNicholas A Phelps, Julie T Miao et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Urban…2021Cited by: 3References: 32

    There is no better place to explore the relationship of industry enclaves to urban life than China, where traditionaldanweis(work units) have coexisted with new foreign direct investment enclaves. Here we draw on original interviews with workers at Wuhan Iron and Steel Company (WISCO) and Foxconn in the city of Wuhan to examine industry enclaves old and new in terms of their spatial arrangement, work, institutions, and social life and identity. T…

  • Beyond neighbouring

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Fulong Wu et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2020Cited by: 18References: 28

    The existing literature on migrants' social integration tends to focus on neighbourhood. Few studies have explored migrants' place attachment to their host cities, which might be a better scale for social integration. Drawing on the 2014 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper examines migrants' place attachment and explores how it is influenced by individual status and the factors of social and physical environment. It is found that migrants w…

  • Social integration of migrants across Chinese neighbourhoods

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Fulong Wu et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2020Cited by: 28References: 14

  • City profile

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Zhigang LiARTICLECities2019References: 17

  • Residential satisfaction of migrants in Wenzhou, an ‘ordinary city’ of China

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Zhigang LiARTICLEHabitat International2017Cited by: 16References: 41

  • Socio-spatial segregation in China and migrants’ everyday life experiences

    Sainan Lin, Piper GaubatzARTICLEUrban Geography2016Cited by: 31References: 15

    Although internal migration is one of the most frequently discussed aspects of China’s twenty-first century urbanization, much of the research in this area emphasizes megacities. This paper, however, focuses on Wenzhou, a Chinese city that served as a national model for the introduction of small-scale private enterprise in the 1990s. Through a survey of migrants living in the subdistrict of Shuangyu, a settlement dominated by manufacturing worker…

  • New Wenzhou

    Open AccessSainan Lin, Piper GaubatzARTICLEHabitat International2015Cited by: 2References: 21