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The children of China's great migration / Rachel Murphy.

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"In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their hometowns, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over 61 million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been left behind by both parents. Rachel...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Murphy, Rachel, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Children of internal migrants > China.
Rural children > China > Social conditions.
Rural-urban migration > China.
Families > China.
Children of internal migrants.
Families.
Rural children > Social conditions.
Rural-urban migration.
China.
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the lives of left-behind children in rural China
  • Migration, education and family striving in four counties of Anhui and Jiangxi
  • Sacrifice and study
  • Boys' and girls' experiences of distribution in striving families
  • Children in "mother at-home, father out" families
  • Children of lone-migrant mothers and at-home fathers
  • Children in skipped generation families
  • Left-behind children in striving teams
  • Appendix: Field research on left-behind children in China.

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