Abstract: In the context of rapid urbanization, the massive inflow of migrants has intensified the complexity of the urban population structure and the uneven distribution of social resources. Urban villages, serving as an important low-cost residential area for migrants, are confronted with the dilemma of residential segregation and spatial governance resulting from the disparity between the urban and rural dual systems. Hence, it is particularly important and urgent to systematically review and sort out the identification mechanisms, response strategies, and resolution paths of urban village living space issues. This study employs CiteSpace and VOSviewer software to systematically review and summarize the evolution of domestic and foreign research on urban village living space, and then constructs a 'residential segregation-housing preference-governance strategy' analytical framework. The objective is to deeply analyze the latest progress in urban village living space research from both spatial and social dimensions, and thereby predict its future development trend. The research findings indicate that the spatial segregation of urban village living space not only presents as physical space isolation and deprivation but also profoundly impacts residents' social integration and identity recognition. The stage-specific changes in housing preferences are closely related to residents' sense of identity recognition. At the same time, the evolution of governance strategy focus reveals that the common governance concept is gradually awakened in the process of social integration. Looking ahead, urban village living space research should further focus on the deep-level mechanisms of living space segregation, pay attention to the living needs of special groups, deepen research on housing preferences, and break through the constraints of traditional governance thinking, advocating for multi-stakeholder collaborative governance to achieve the optimization of urban village living space and the deepening of social integration.