Xiaojin Chen

China's Left-Behind Children

Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles

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Produktbeschreibung

Paying special attention to the seventy million children left behind by internal migrants in rural China, this book investigates the role of parental migration and the left-behind status of their children in shaping family dynamics and the children’s general wellbeing, including school performance, delinquency, resilience, feelings of ambiguous loss, and other psychological problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781978837140
• ISBN-10: 1978837143
• Artikelnr.: 68858628

Autorenporträt

XIAOJIN CHEN is an associate professor of sociology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Who Leaves and Who Stays? Factors Associated with Parental
Migration and Caretaking Arrangements
Chapter 3:  Caretaking At-Home: Grandparenting and One-Parent Caretaking
Chapter 4: Parenting from Afar: Long-Distance Parenting and Short Visits
Chapter 5: “Have You Finished Your Homework?” Parental Migration,
Caretaking Practices, and Children’s Schooling     
Chapter 6: Are Left-Behind Children More Deviance- and Delinquency-Prone?
Chapter 7: Children’s Psychological Wellbeing: Caretaking Practices,
Long-Distance Parenting, and Ambiguous Loss
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Index