| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations, map |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children of internal migrants -- China
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Rural children -- China -- Social conditions
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Rural-urban migration -- China
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Families -- China
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Children of internal migrants
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Families
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Rural children -- Social conditions
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Rural-urban migration
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020013777 |
| ISBN |
9781108877251 |
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1108877257 |
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9781108883221 |
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1108883222 |
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