Abstract: Taking the urban survey data as the sample, this paper measures the community not-in-my-back-yard effect of the urban residents on the new generation of migrant workers and focuses on the influence of the urban residents’ social and economic status on the community NIMBY effect of the new generation of migrant workers as well as its transmission route. The results show that: (1) the urban residents have a 18.4% range of the community NIMBY effect on the new generation of migrant workers; (2) urban residents with such six social demography attributes as women, marital experiences, fertility experiences (especially their children are not yet grown up), local urban native, older age and longer time in urban life would have higher probability of occurrence of the community NIMBY effect; (3) with the improvement of such social and economic status as urban citizens’ education level, family gross annual income, work unit stability and subjective socioeconomic status, the probability of occurrence of community NIMBY effect would be significantly increased in general; and (4) part of the evaluation made by urban residents on the new generation of migrant workers is playing an intermediary role in the influence of their socioeconomic status on the community NIMBY effect. Through positive exchanges and necessary help, to improve the urban residents’ opinion towards the new generation of migrant workers in terms of personal quality evaluation and social contribution evaluation would be the key to break the positive correlation between the higher socioeconomic status of the urban residents and the higher tendency of community not-in-my-back-yard.

Key words: community NIMBY effect; socioeconomic status; urban citizens; new generation of migrant workers; intermediate effect