Acculturation and adjustment among rural migrant children in urban China: A longitudinal study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyin Chen ◽  
Rui Fu ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
Junsheng Liu ◽  
Shihong Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Rural Migrant

The Plight of Rural Migrant Workers in Urban China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongwei Chu ◽  
James W. Gentry ◽  
Jie Fowler Gao ◽  
Xin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

Towards Meritocratic Apartheid? Points Systems and Migrant Access to China's Urban Public Schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Yi Wan ◽  
Edward Vickers
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Entire Population ◽  
Urban Districts ◽  
Recent Introduction ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Urban Public Schools

Abstract This paper analyses rural migrant children's access to public schools in urban China, focusing on the implications of the recent introduction of points systems for apportioning school places. This approach, first piloted by Zhongshan city in Guangdong province from 2009, has steadily been extended nationwide. Here, we analyse the reasons for its spread and for divergence in its implementation in various urban districts. Notwithstanding rhetorical claims that points systems promote “fairness” or “equality” in the treatment of migrants, our analysis suggests that they maintain or even exacerbate the stratification of urban society, lending new legitimation to the hierarchical differentiation of entitlements. This is consistent with the aim of the 2014 “New national urbanization plan” to divert urban growth from megacities towards smaller cities. However, we argue that the use of points systems should also be seen in the context of an evolving bureaucratic-ideological project aimed at more rigorously monitoring and assessing China's entire population, invoking the logic of meritocracy for the purpose of control.

Schooling institutions and academic achievement for migrant children in Urban China

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinxin Chen ◽  
Fang Lai ◽  
Hongmei Yi ◽  
Linxiu Zhang ◽  
James Chu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Urban China

scholarly journals From Access to Quality? Examining the Interim Quasi-State Schools for Rural Migrants in Urban China

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Yu ◽  
Wei-Lin Huang
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
State Sector ◽  
State Education ◽  
Children's Schooling ◽  
State Schools

This article focuses on the educational quality of the newly emerged quasi-state schools for rural migrant children in urban China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 government officers, school leaders, teachers and migrant parents in Shanghai. Adopting a theoretical perspective of policy as a temporary settlement of interests, the article deconstructs the power relations that constructed the disadvantaged positionality of these schools in the local school system. What can be identified from the empirical data is the emergence of an “interim quasi-state school system” with three interrelated features: it belongs to the state sector, offers quasi-state education and has an interim nature. Under the local government’s low-cost and inferior schooling approach, the whole system is treated as an emergency mechanism for solving the floating children’s schooling problem, rather than as regular schools offering high quality education. While realising the children’s right to education, this system does not guarantee them a “good” education.

scholarly journals Unequal occupational mobilities between rural migrant and urban resident workers in urban China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
Urban Resident ◽  
High Tendency ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Urban Labor Market ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

The current scholarship on inequality of occupational attainment between rural migrant workers (RMW) and urban resident workers (URW) is largely dominated by evidence suggesting a landscape of occupational segregation, whilst there is a lack of studies researching the equality of occupational mobility. To fill this gap, this study compares the occupational mobilities between RMW and URW in China’s urban labor market. Three heatmaps are used to visualize the differences between these two groups in the outflow distributions of occupational mobility. The results show a marked disadvantage of RMW’s mobility into white-collar occupations and a relatively high tendency for them to move to or to stay in the manual and agricultural occupations.

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