BACKGROUND In China, there is a large migrant population. A significant proportion of children of the migrant population in China are not able to attend public schools due to the lack of local household registration (HuKou). They turn to privately-operated migrant schools, which are usually under-funded, have bad environmental facilities and are inadequately staffed compared to public schools. ...

This study compares the education status of migrant children in China and United States, with a specific focus on K–12 education. Migrant children, also known as moving from rural areas to urban areas, immigrant families face unique challenges both countries, including regional prejudice brought by Hukou policy racial social class inequality US. Using comparative approach, this examines similar...

China is experiencing an urban revolution, powered in part by hundreds of millions of migrant workers. Faced with institutionalised discrimination in the housing system and the lack of housing affordability, migrants have turned to virtually uninhabitable spaces such as basements and civil air defence shelters for housing. With hundreds of thousands of people living in crowded and dark basement...

Across China, the household registration (hukou) policy has restricted school admission of rural–urban migrant children in urban areas. In 2017, Nanjing government issued Tenants Have Same Right as Householders (THSRH) to allow tenants areas access public-school resources. However, what have experienced and after negotiating these schools deserves serious attention from educators, scholars poli...

BACKGROUND Recent trends show an unprecedented feminisation of migration in China, triggered by the increasing demand for cheap labour in big cities and the availability of women in the labour market. These trends corroborate the evidence that non-agricultural work and remittance from urban labour migrants have become the major sources of rural household income. OBJECTIVE This paper investigate...

OBJECTIVES To assess the health service utilisation of internal migrant children in Guangdong, China, and to explore the association between children's health service utilisation and their parents' acculturation. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey between April and May 2016. SETTING Six society-run schools of Tianhe and Baiyun districts in Guangzhou City of China. PARTICIPANTS We recruited all...

This paper examines the determinants and consequences of rural to urban registration (hukou) mobility in contemporary China, focusing on the link between social origins, hukou conversion, and the consequences of conversion. In contrast to massive rural-urban migration, hukou conversion is difficult and rare, but childhood urban residence increases the likelihood of achieving an urban hukou. Com...

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, “born” urban residents, and “acquired” urban residents who once changed their hukou identity from rural to urban. We focus on how the horizontal inequality—income disparity between migrants and...

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, “born” urban residents, and “acquired” urban residents who once changed their hukou identity from rural to urban. We focus on how the horizontal inequality—income disparity between migrants and...