Parental migration and children’s academic engagement: The case of China

Chen, Shuang; Adams, James Luther; Qu, Zhaowei; Wang, Xiaohua; Chen, Li

doi:10.1007/s11159-013-9390-0

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“…Negative emotions such as loneliness may lead the left-behinds to unhealthy behaviors like drinking and smoking as they are very vulnerable to such vices as their way of coping. Such findings of Gao, et al (2013), Gao et al (2010) and Chen (2013) are also evident in the present study.…”

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Hearts Apart: The Impact of Parental Migration on the Life of Left-Behind Filipino Adolescents

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2017

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“…Further, Chen et al, 2013 revealed that higher levels of parental emotional support are significantly related to higher academic aspirations across all models. Parental expectations seem to be positively correlated with children's academic aspirations: children expected to rank among the …”

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Hearts Apart: The Impact of Parental Migration on the Life of Left-Behind Filipino Adolescents

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2017

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“…For instance, the current education system and public service system still make migrant workers feel difficult to integrate into urban society. In education system, children of migrant workers have to register in specific schools that are particularly for them (Chen et al , 2013). The only chance for migrant children to get access to normal schools is that their migrant parents pay special financial fees named as “support and donation fee”.…”

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Rural to urban migrant workers in China: challenges of risks and rights

Yang

2020

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PurposeThe rapid urbanization of China brings in large number of migrant workers coming from rural areas. With the perspective of social integration, this study reviews the findings about economic livelihood, social integration and health related to migrant workers since China initiated economic reform. We show that (1) though the economic wellbeing of migrant workers has been improved significantly after they moved to cities, their economic standing is still lower than local residents; (2) though there is progress of social integration between migrant workers and local residents, conflicts and challenges due to the competitions in employment and the sharing of community resource are still commonly found; (3) the disadvantaged status of health is very common among migrant workers and (4) women and the new generation in migration have more disadvantages in the social transition. We suggest that issues of equal rights between migrant workers and local residents should be discussed in the future as more migrant workers intend to stay in cities for long-term.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology is literature reviews based on the current studies about migrant, migration and policy. The first category of literature is the research field on China's migration and urbanization to describe the whole context of migrant workers. The second is research field on detailed issues about migrant workers and the last field is policy issues about the welfare and needs among migrant workers.FindingsWe find that (1) though the economic wellbeing of migrant workers has been improved significantly after they moved to cities, their economic standing is still lower than local residents; (2) though there are progress of social integration between migrant workers and local residents, conflicts and challenges due to the competitions in employment and the sharing of community resource are still commonly found; (3) the disadvantaged status of health is very common among migrant workers and (4) women and the new generation in migration face more disadvantages in the social transition.Research limitations/implicationsThere are some limitations in the current research: (1) the review focuses on the majority of migrant workers to reveal the general picture about the living, developing and rights among migrant workers, but is still lacking in dealing with some special and disadvantaged groups. (2) More international issues related to migrant workers should be discussed in the future considering that China's labor market is becoming more and more global.Social implicationsFirst, the conclusion about the economic and social integration among migrant workers indicates that more equal welfare services, including resident services, commence services, medical services etc. should be included in the municipal managements considering that Chinese cities will be the combination of local residents and migrant residents. Second, the conclusion about the women and children indicates that the future public services targeted at the disadvantaged population should focus on migrant members due to the second generation of migrant workers will be one of the mainstream population in future China's cities.Originality/valueThis study gives general views on migrant workers in current China. The findings in this review conclude the main development and improvements among tens of millions of migrant workers in Chinese cities. Meanwhile, we also conclude that there are still many disadvantaged and marginalized sub-groups in migration who are suffering from less welfares and rights in urban lives. More detailed and equal rights and public services should be considered and implemented in the fast urbanization taking place.

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“…Third, family external environment resources mainly come from school and neighbourhood settings. Teacher support has been shown to increase school satisfaction (Fang et al, 2016), to improve academic engagement (Chen, Adams, Qu, Wang, & Chen, 2013) and to reduce the odds of antisocial behaviour among migrant children in China (Jia & Liu, 2017). Living in organised and safe neighbourhoods of high collective efficacy helps youth to achieve developmental adaptation (McLoyd, 1998).…”

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An ecological investigation of resilience among rural‐urban migrant adolescents of low socioeconomic status families in China

Gao

Xie

Frost

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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The present study aims to explore the mechanism of resilience among rural‐urban migrant adolescents of low socioeconomic status (SES) families in China with the ecological system perspective. Selecting 946 rural‐urban migrant adolescents from the China Education Panel Survey, we used latent class analyses to distinguish different levels of resilience among migrant adolescents from low‐SES families, and logistic regressions to identify factors associated with resilience and to examine the cumulative risk and protection models. The findings show that parental expectation, teacher support and organised neighbourhood are salient resilience‐promoting factors; and resilience happens only if protective factors accumulate enough at multiple systems to compensate the negative effect of cumulative community risk. The study describes the importance of a protective environment in the domains of family, school and neighbourhood on the resilience of this group, and suggest intervention programmes should extend the paradigm from child‐centred approach to environment‐focused approach to potentiate the positive development of this population.

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Parental migration and children’s academic engagement: The case of China

Cited by 18 publications

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Hearts Apart: The Impact of Parental Migration on the Life of Left-Behind Filipino Adolescents

Hearts Apart: The Impact of Parental Migration on the Life of Left-Behind Filipino Adolescents

Rural to urban migrant workers in China: challenges of risks and rights

An ecological investigation of resilience among rural‐urban migrant adolescents of low socioeconomic status families in China

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