Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context : Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China / / by Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu.
The book grapples with social inequality, inclusivity, and diversity through the discussions of wellbeing, wellbecoming, and resilience of floating children and left-behind children. It invites families, schools, communities, social organisations, and governments to rethink and recognise the qualiti...
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| Superior document: | Spotlight on China |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Spotlight on China
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXII, 194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Urbanisation and Migration: Histories, Patterns, and Challenges
- Background: China in a Snapshot
- A Penetrating Overview of Urbanisation in China
- Household Registration System in China and the Institutionalised Class Distinction
- A Synoptic Review of Migration
- Chapter Summary: Framing Floating and Left-Behind Children Together
- The Wellbeing of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children: Conceptual Foundation and Empirical Knowledge
- Revisiting the Notion of ‘Rurality’
- Conceptualising Wellbeing
- The Wellbeing of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children
- Chapter Summary: Time to Shift from the Medical Deficit Model
- Coming into an Inheritance: Intergenerational Social Reproduction through Class-Based Pedagogies
- Different Roots and Routes
- Social Reproduction through the Classed Pedagogy at Home and in School
- Empirical Coda: Some Quantitative Evidence on Social Reproduction
- Chapter Summary: Challenging the Determinism Claim
- Rural Dispositions of Floating Children in Urban Fields: Accent, Deportment, and Bodily Hexis
- Research Sites and Research Participants
- Rural Accent and Deportment of Floating Children
- Bodily Hexis: A Set of Durable and Transposable Rural Dispositions
- The Modification of Rural Dispositions and the Counter-Training of Habitus
- Rural Habitus: Its Marginalisation and Misrecognition
- The Shifting of Field Structures and the Recognition of Rural Habitus
- Empirical Coda: What Do We See in the Larger Picture?
- Chapter Summary: Enabling the Nurture Instead of Reshaping the Nature
- Living with Kin Caregivers: Special Needs of Children Left Behind
- Rearing a Child: Traditions in Diversity
- Research Site and Participants
- Informal Alternative Care by Kin Caregivers: Why Did They Step in?
- The Needs Model of Children Left Behind in Rural China
- Children Left Behind: How are They Seen as Different?
- Multiple Figures: Their Roles in Addressing the Needs of Children Left Behind
- Chapter Summary: Restating the Needs of Children Left Behind
- Education and Personal Development of Children Left Behind
- Educational Needs of Children Left Behind
- Go beyond Education: Children’s Personal Development
- Education and Personal Development: What Do They Mean for Rural Children Left Behind?
- Chapter Summary: Education as a Core Need
- Floating Children and Left-Behind Children as Resilient Agents: A Strength-Based Pathway to Wellbeing
- Revisiting the Notion of Resilience
- Disadvantaged Children, Tenacious Creatures
- Chapter Summary: An Ecological Approach to Resilience Building
- Conclusion: A Call for System-Level Change
- A Recapitulation of What We Have Learned so Far
- Implications for Policy and Practice
- Scholarly Contribution: Rethinking the Deficits through a Strength-Based Perspective
- Final Remarks
- Appendices
- References
- Index.