Patterns of migrant community formation in China's megaurban Pearl River Delta (PRD) - linking informal dynamics, governability and global change

珠江三角洲/中国最近的经济转型导致了大规模的特大城市化，这至少在一定程度上是由非正式过程驱动的。最严重的问题是大量的非正规移民和几乎崩溃的医疗保健系统。在此背景下，该研究项目旨在加深理解高度复杂和非正式特大城市进程之间的联系——这里是：非正式移民流动与特大城市卫生战略之间的联系和动态——以及全球变化的相互形式和影响，以及特大城市中空间、社会和机构关系的重组。不同的非正式移民群体如何受到遭到破坏的医疗保健系统的影响，不同的利益相关者如何反应，不同的行政层面（中央和地方层面）如何应对地方、国家和超国家机构之间复杂的相互作用，这又如何影响政权的稳定性和合法性？

The recent economic transformation in Pearl River Delta/China has resulted in massive megaurbanization, which is at least partly driven by informal processes. To the most severe problems belong the high informal migration and the almost collapsed health-care system. Against this background the research project aims at a deepened understanding of the connection between highly complex and informal megaurban processes - here: the connection and dynamics between flows of informal migration and megaurban health strategies - and the mutual forms and effects of global change as well as the reorganisation of spatial, social, and institutional relationships in the megacities. How are different groups of informal migrants affected by the devastated health care systems, how do different stakeholders react, how are different levels of administration (central and local levels) reacting to this complex interplay of local, national and supranational agents, and how does this condition the regime s stability and legitimacy?