This survey is a longitudinal online survey which has been administered to students enrolled in two Chinese universities who are studying in China or are abroad attending an exchange program. Two universities participated in the survey: the Beijing Normal University (BNU) and the University of Nottingham at Ningbo (UNN). The survey is composed by six modules (A-F) in which the respondents are asked questions on a broad variety of topics, such as personal and parental Information, consumption habits, networks, migration attitudes, preference and satisfaction.Internal migration in China has rapidly increased in the past thirty years. Fuelled by the reforms initiated at the end of 1970s, the largest move of labour force in history started taking place, with an enormous amount of individuals temporarily leaving rural areas to work in urban areas attracted by better economic conditions. In this context, our proposed project aims at investigating how migration reshapes the consumption patterns of migrants and other individuals indirectly affected by migration, with particular attention to implications in terms of consumption inequality. Our focus is on both the Great Migration in China and the Chinese diaspora in the EU.

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