The Children of China's Great Migration

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-83485-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

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 sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been left behind by both parents. Rachel Murphy draws on her longitudinal fieldwork in two landlocked provinces to explore the experiences of these left-behind children and to examine the impact of this great migration on childhood in China and on family relationships. Using children's voices, Murphy provides a multi-faceted insight into experiences of parental migration, study pressures, poverty, institutional discrimination, patrilineal family culture, and reconfigured gendered and intergenerational relationships.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Murphy, Rachel
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).