ABSTRACT This article scrutinises how a Chinese Project under the Belt and Road Initiative has produced diverse post‐resettlement (im)mobility trajectories in northern Laos. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Banmai—the largest relocation community of the Nam Nua 1 hydropower project—it analyses how various mobility and staying infrastructures influence the aspirations and capabilities of migrant labourers and students , involuntary stayers , voluntary stayers , acquiescent immobile actors , reluctant stayers , potential leavers and hopeful stayers . By extending the application of migration infrastructure theory to the context of development‐induced internal displacement, the article also develops a typological framework of post‐resettlement (im)mobile actors that reduces mobility bias and engages with the relational politics of mobility. The article illuminates three mechanisms through which (im)mobility infrastructures disproportionately affect the resettled villagers. First, they unevenly reduce barriers to moving and staying. Second, the resettled villagers' differential command over social, commercial and socioeconomic infrastructures, including market and state connections, can influence their capabilities to realise their mobility and staying aspirations. Third, the institutional systems of (im)mobility infrastructures unequally distribute risk and support. As it examines the infrastructural configuration of (im)mobility, the article also identifies targeted measures to support the infrastructural needs of different post‐resettlement movers and stayers.

ABSTRACT This paper advances existing work on the mobilities and geographies of students by examining the complexities and contestations affecting international students' consumption perceptions and experiences. This is important in positing new ways of understanding how educational mobilities, in both their meta and micro forms, can influence, and be influenced by, consumption practices and ideologies. Drawing on a set of semi‐structured interviews with Brazilian international students living and studying in London, UK this paper draws together mobilities and consumption theories as a lens for interpreting consumption knowledge and practice as an evolving and iterative set of performances that align closely with an individual's life‐course opportunities and barriers. This paper makes two contributions. First, we identify mobile consumption as a way for international students to reflexively connect their past and present experiences when adapting to new or unfamiliar consumption practices and places. Second, we recognise consumption to be potentially burdensome for international students whose mobilities mean that consumption practices are temporal, intersecting between past, present and future experiences that shape how international students relate to their belongings and make liminal consumption decisions, knowing their time in in their host city is limited.

ABSTRACT Existing studies on migrant housing have predominantly focused on access to homeownership and housing conditions in destination cities, largely overlooking the dimension of asset accumulation. In recent decades, an increasing number of migrants have achieved homeownership in their destination cities, hometowns, or elsewhere. However, where they purchase property significantly impacts the wealth they are able to accumulate. Drawing on data from the “Employment Status and Living Conditions of Migrants in Yangtze River Delta Cities” survey, this study investigates how migrants with varying socioeconomic characteristics and migration patterns choose the location for entering homeownership within the urban hierarchy, thereby influencing their housing wealth accumulation. The findings reveal that owning property in destination cities leads to higher market values and faster housing appreciation compared to owning property in hometown cities. However, only migrants with institutional and economic advantages, as well as those originating from higher‐tier cities, are more capable of securing homeownership in destination cities, thereby boarding the escalator of housing wealth accumulation. By adopting a spatial perspective, this study highlights the profound impact of a city's position within the urban hierarchy on migrants' asset accumulation. The findings offer policy implications aimed at reducing institutional barriers, such as housing purchase restrictions, to enhance migrants' access to the property ladder, promote asset accumulation, and support greater social integration.

ABSTRACT Like other high‐income countries, Scotland is experiencing rapid population ageing, with evidence of spatial polarisation of age groups. This study uses the Scottish Censuses of 2011 and 2022 to understand patterns and trends in the geographies of ageing and age mixing. With attention to urban‐rural differences, we examined, at the Data Zone (neighbourhood) level, spatial age segregation and age mixing using the Dissimilarity Index, cumulative proportion calculations, Simpson's Diversity Index and Global and Local Moran's I. This paper contributes new findings on the spatial and temporal patterns of ageing and age mixing in Scotland, with relevance for broader debates on health and social care provision, housing accessibility and equity, and population sustainability. First, it illustrates the stark sub‐national variation in geographies of age segregation; second, it demonstrates the value of an analytical and interpretive framework using concepts of urban hierarchy; third, it causes us to rethink typical understandings of ageing and the urban hierarchy. In particular, the analyses reveal high age segregation and low age diversity in urban areas together with the potential polarisation of older‐ and younger‐age areas in some parts of cities; stable age mixing in rural areas (but with decreasing age diversity); and accessible (town and rural) neighbourhoods exhibiting both increasing age segregation and diversity and acting as the lynchpin for understanding the local dynamics of age mixing over the last decade. Attention to spatial nuance also reveals that change in age diversity is spatially clustered. The paper raises questions about the demographic dynamics and social meaning implied by spatially‐varied age mixing, with implications for population and community planning in Scotland and elsewhere.

ABSTRACT Neighbourhood cohesion is suggested to improve residents' subjective well‐being, especially for disadvantaged individuals who are more likely to live in resource‐deprived neighbourhoods. However, existing studies face a challenge in establishing a causal relationship between neighbourhood cohesion and subjective well‐being due to endogeneity issues from residential selection. To address this methodological challenge, we use the random allocation of public housing in Hong Kong as a natural experiment. We analyse data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) and focus on public housing residents. We find that individuals' pre‐determined socioeconomic and demographic characteristics are uncorrelated with the social cohesion of the neighbourhoods where residents are placed, which confirms the validity of our research design. Based on the design, we find that neighbourhood cohesion is positively associated with residents' life satisfaction and happiness, while it is also negatively associated with mental distress. Moreover, neighbourhood satisfaction is a significant mediator between neighbourhood cohesion and subjective well‐being. Our findings contribute to establishing a causal relationship in studies on neighbourhood effects and provide policy implications for improving well‐being among disadvantaged residents.

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the contribution made by Ruth Glass to our understanding of gentrification and class change in London. It argues that not only was she remarkably ahead of her time in identifying and naming this important new phenomenon over 60 years ago, but that her discussion of the social and housing market impacts of gentrification have proved to be remarkably prescient. Although gentrification has taken many new forms which she could not have anticipated, she located gentrification as a process of social class and housing change which has subsequently transformed the physical and social structure of London and many other major cities. The paper examines her writing from 1964, 1973 and 1989 and highlights its continuing relevance in the context of the subsequent social and housing market changes in London and other cities.

Abstract Understanding the settlement intentions of female migrants is crucial for promoting inclusive and sustainable urbanization, yet existing studies often lack a gender‐sensitive and multi‐level analytical framework. Drawing on ecological systems theory, this study integrates spatial analysis and interpretable machine learning to examine the spatial patterns and driving mechanisms of female migrants' settlement intentions in China. Results show that settlement intentions are unevenly distributed, with northern and northwestern regions showing higher intentions than southern regions. The meso‐system (workplace and family context) exerts the most pronounced influence on settlement decisions. Short‐distance migration and higher local minimum wages consistently strengthen women's willingness to settle. By contrast, accumulated household difficulties and elevated crime levels substantially weaken settlement intentions. Notably, several influences are nonlinear: moderate working hours enhance settlement willingness, but excessive hours quickly erode it, and air pollution becomes a decisive deterrent once the AQI exceeds 100. These findings suggest that female migrants' settlement decisions emerge from the balance between economic security, family sustainability, and urban livability, underscoring the need for gender‐sensitive and place‐based policy interventions.

ABSTRACT Vulnerable ethnic groups have been affected disproportionately by the COVID‐19 pandemic, and related fertility effects have been heterogeneous among different social groups. Although Türkiye hosts the largest Roma population, neither their fertility nor the pandemic's effects on it have been addressed. The novel contribution of this study is to analyse the fertility response to the COVID‐19 pandemic among the Roma in Türkiye and how it differed by socioeconomic status, further comparing the group with their counterparts in Europe. We frame our approach based on preceding theoretical and empirical literature on minority‐majority fertility differentials, and on studies of COVID‐19 and its heterogeneous fertility outcomes. Data is taken from “The Demographic Integration and Differentials of Roma Population and Policy Priorities in Türkiye” research. In addition to descriptive analyses, an event history approach is used wherein discrete‐time logit models are estimated using logistic regression, with a dependent variable of conception leading to a live birth. Our multivariate analyses show that for the Roma in Türkiye, COVID‐19 is associated with a statistically significant declined odds of conception in the second and following years of the pandemic compared to pre‐pandemic years, particularly for the first order of conception. The odds of third and higher‐orders of conceptions also decline in the post‐acute pandemic years. Interaction analyses indicate that Roma women of different wealth status and educational levels responded differently to the COVID‐19 pandemic in terms of both periodicity and sign of the relationship.

ABSTRACT The debate over whether migration serves as a viable livelihood strategy for enhancing rural household economic development has persisted for decades. Existing research is limited by three key shortcomings: neglecting the roles of key household members, oversimplifying the dichotomy between migrants and nonmigrants, and adopting a static view of household income without considering its growth trajectory. This study addresses these gaps by employing growth curve models and analyzing six waves of data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) spanning the period from 2010 to 2020. We examine how the livelihood choices of rural household heads—farming, local nonfarm work, and migration—affect household income growth trajectories. Our findings indicate that the livelihood choice of the household head is a significant predictor of household income growth. Although migrant‑headed households typically enjoy an economic advantage, the beneficial effects of migration for this depend on the household's life stage, with younger and female‑headed households and those undertaking short‑term migration experiencing more substantial gains. Extending the migration period has minimal effect on accelerating the rate​ of household income growth. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between migration and rural household economic well‐being in China, thereby advancing the literature on development and gender equity in migrant‐sending areas.

ABSTRACT This study examines how Ghanaian returnees in Accra's creative industries cultivate belonging through the creation of cultural venues. While return‐migration scholarship has largely emphasised returnees' psychic ‘in‐betweenness’ and cultivation of symbolic ‘third spaces’, this study explores the material and spatial practices through which belonging is anchored. Drawing on 6 months of qualitative fieldwork, it analyses three returnee‐owned venues—a concept store, a performance space and a subscription library—to show how place‐making shapes belonging through the spatial settings, material configurations and meanings attached to these venues. The findings reveal a clear paradox: while these venues offer returnees refuge, community and cultural agency, they simultaneously reproduce socio‐spatial boundaries, ultimately constraining their own pursuit of belonging. Place‐making emerges as an ambivalent practice that both grounds returnees and reinforces wider urban inequalities. The study advances return migration scholarship by foregrounding the spatial politics through which belonging is constructed in a postcolonial urban context.