Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)

The Children of China's Great Migration

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Produktbeschreibung

A 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781108792295
• ISBN-10: 1108792294
• Artikelnr.: 63461154

Autorenporträt

Rachel Murphy is Professor of Chinese Development and Society and fellow of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford. She is President of the British Association of Chinese Studies and the author of How Migrant Labor Is Changing Rural China (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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.