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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108792294

ISBN-139781108792295

eBay Product ID (ePID)17057254522

Product Key Features

Number of Pages302 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameChildren of China's Great Migration

Publication Year2022

SubjectSociology / General, World / General

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

AuthorRachel Murphy

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews'In this sociological first, Rachel Murphy brings children's voices into the conversations about China's strategy of rapid capital accumulation based on a labor migration system involving long-term separation of migrant parents in the cities from children left in the villages. Combining great erudition with heartrending vignettes of generation after generation trapped in ceaseless toil in pursuit of unreachable dreams, this important study will change our understandings of migration, family, and gender in this major world power.' Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University, Massachusetts

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.850951

Table Of Content1. Understanding the lives of left-behind children in rural China; 2. Migration, education and family striving in four counties of Anhui and Jiangxi; 3. Sacrifice and study; 4. Boys' and girls' experiences of distribution in striving families; 5. Children in 'mother at-home, father out' families; 6. Children of lone-migrant mothers and at-home fathers; 7. Children in skipped generation families; 8. Left-behind children in striving teams; Appendix: field research on left-behind children in China.

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisA longitudinal exploration of how different left-behind rural Chinese children are affected by family separation, how they feel about their migrant parents and current caregivers, and how they deal with intense study pressures in the face of disadvantage. A key text for those interested in family, gender, education, development and migration., In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been left behind by both parents. Rachel Murphy draws on her longitudinal fieldwork in two landlocked provinces to explore the experiences of these left-behind children and to examine the impact of this great migration on childhood in China and on family relationships. Using children's voices, she provides a multi-faceted insight into experiences of parental migration, study pressures, poverty, institutional discrimination, patrilineal family culture, and reconfigured gendered and intergenerational relationships.

LC Classification NumberHQ792