China's Left-behind Children - Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Xiaojin Chen
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781978837157
• ISBN: 978-1-978837-15-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education