Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages
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چکیده
This article examines how, for many in rural China, experiences of childhood are entangled within the complex processes rural-to-urban internal migration. Drawing upon multi-generational life history data three villages, it unpacks common types experience. In Village A, where married men migrated but wives stayed behind, children grew up with ‘absent fathers’. B, both parents to cities work, leaving their predominantly cared by grandmothers as a surrogate. C, often took city them, and family had navigate hostile urban environment that rendered those origin second-class citizens. Whilst each setting were distinctive shaped geographies, they shared features reflecting urban–rural divide social inequalities embedded Chinese society. public discourse, institutionalized experienced communities disguised downplayed focus instead on parental separation impact ‘left-behind’ children. reveals is stability quality care arrangements, rather than mere from parents, critical development emotional well-being Theoretically, analysis contributes global scholarship dynamics between migration, calls broader framing debate beyond dominant concern physical separation.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Children & Society
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0951-0605', '1099-0860']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12666