Abstract: Based on the survey data of 974 relocated households in 27 large and medium-sized centralized resettlement communities in the towns of Southwest China, this study examines the impact of the citizenship of rural-urban migrants on household consumption. The results show that citizenship has a significant“expansion and upgrading”effect on household consumption, with a greater impact on“upgrading”of consumption. For every one standard deviation increase in the level of urbanization, the total consumption of relocated households increases by 0.734%, development oriented consumption increases by 3.805%, and the Engel coefficient decreases by 14.298%. Citizenship affects household consumption by reducing employment instability and income uncertainty, connecting urban social security systems, and changing consumer reference groups. Compared to families in the start-up and support periods, urbanization has a more significant effect on promoting consumption in families in the support period, burden period, and stable period. The subsequent employment support has limited strengthening effect on household consumption in the low urbanization stage, while it has a significant weakening effect on household consumption in the high urbanization stage. Compared to job development policies, employment guidance and skill enhancement policies play a more significant role in weakening the consumption effect of urbanization. Therefore, it is necessary to target the relatively vulnerable groups to strengthen employment support and consolidate the economic foundation of citizen oriented consumption, to improve the level of social security and build a risk barrier for citizen oriented consumption, and to create differentiated consumption scenarios and enhance the subjective willingness of citizens to consume.

Key words: citizenship, household consumption, relocation to a new place, centralized resettlement community