During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, many urban planners focused on urban exodus. However, a research gap exists as to whether the spread of the infection affected changes in the migration destination determinants of family households. This study aims to clarify the shifting determinants of the migration destinations of family households with children who migrated from the urban centre of the Japanese metropolitan areas because of the spread of the infection during the pandemic. This study adopted a life‐course perspective of the shift in migration destination determinants from the pre‐pandemic to the pandemic periods. The participants were recruited through a web‐based questionnaire survey. As a result, this study concluded that family households with children who mentioned the spread of COVID‐19 infection as a migration motive exhibited significant shifts in their migration destination determinants, emphasising the importance of social interaction‐related factors. The social interaction factors are the favorability of communities, community ties, returning to their hometown, and proximity to relatives. Conversely, the influence of work, living environment, and housing factors on family migration did not change much from the pre‐pandemic to the pandemic periods. This means that the pandemic did not affect migration motives related to work, the living environment, and housing. Therefore, the unique contribution of this study lies in its revelation of the temporal precedence of shifts in the prioritisation of social interaction determinants from pre‐pandemic to pandemic periods. Our findings suggest that they might migrated from urban centres to other cities that offer opportunities for social interaction.

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从生命历程角度看有孩子的家庭家庭的迁移决定因素的变化


在 2019 冠状病毒病大流行期间，许多城市规划者专注于城市人口外流。然而，关于感染的传播是否影响了家庭家庭迁移目的地决定因素的变化，存在研究空白。本研究旨在阐明由于大流行期间感染的传播而从日本大都市区市中心迁移的有孩子的家庭家庭迁移目的地的变化决定因素。本研究采用了从大流行前到大流行时期的移民目的地决定因素转变的生命全程视角。参与者是通过基于网络的问卷调查招募的。因此，本研究得出结论，有孩子的家庭家庭将 COVID-19 感染的传播作为迁移动机，他们的迁移目的地决定因素表现出显着变化，强调了社会互动相关因素的重要性。社会互动因素是社区的好感度、社区纽带、返回家乡以及与亲戚的距离。相反，从大流行前到大流行期间，工作、生活环境和住房因素对家庭迁移的影响没有太大变化。这意味着大流行没有影响与工作、生活环境和住房相关的移民动机。因此，这项研究的独特贡献在于它揭示了从大流行前到大流行时期社会互动决定因素优先级变化的时间优先级。我们的研究结果表明，他们可能会从城市中心迁移到其他提供社交互动机会的城市。