Migration and Health in Megacities: A Chinese Example from Guangzhou, China

Migration has influence on health in various aspects. It affects public health in home and host countries and can cause severe health consequences for the migrants. Within this paper, general migration patterns and processes will be introduced and the various associations to health will be discussed. We describe the situation of internal migration in China and emphasise the importance of the Chinese household registration (hukou) system. Using the example of first results of a public health field study, we describe different urban life-world dimensions and their influences on health of working migrants in the megacity of Guangzhou, South China.