Children of China''s Great Migration

Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children's experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Additional text

'A meticulous and insightful chronicle of China's left-behind generation. The voices of children separated from their parents defy a simplistic characterization of a 'lost generation'. The lives of tens of millions of children continue a story of the Chinese family's long-held tradition of striving and sacrifice for better lives.' Wang Feng, University of California, Irvine

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Murphy, Rachel (University of Oxford) Murphy, Murphy Rachel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108834858
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83485-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, Sociology: customs & traditions, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Migration, immigration & emigration, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Asian History, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: family and relationships, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Sociology: work and labour