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Interregional migration has broad and far-reaching impacts on regional urbanization process in ethnic minority areas of Southwest China. The previous literature of interregional migration paid less attention on the ethnic minority areas with fragile geographical feature and marginal socio-economic context in the developing world due to the dearth of reliable data. Based on the 2015 national 1% population sampling survey at the village/community scale, taking Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, China as the case study, this paper analyzed the spatial differentiation pattern. The results showed that: (1) migration in Yulong Naxi Autonomous County exhibited obvious spatial differentiation characteristics in terms of population aggregation, population loss, migration direction, and migration activity; (2) the overall spatial differentiation of migration exhibited a “layer + sector” pattern in Yulong Naxi Autonomous County: the first layer was active areas with net inflows (< 20 km from the seat of the county government), the second layer was inactive areas (within 20–60 km of the seat of the county government), and the third layer was a mixed “layer + sector” zone (> 60 km to the seat of the county government), comprised of inactive areas and active areas with net outflows; (3) the spatial differentiation pattern of migration was highly correlated with the regional contexts including the regional economic development, regional transportation accessibility and regional social development, while regional physical geographical factors had insignificant relationships with the migration pattern.
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Zhao, Mf., Wang, Dg. Spatial differentiation pattern of interregional migration in ethnic minority areas of Yunnan Province, China. J. Mt. Sci. 18, 3041–3057 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-021-6802-7
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