Migrant Children in State/Quasi-state Schools in Urban China

<p>Highlighting the changing landscape of Chinese urban state schools under the pressure of recruiting a tremendous number of migrant children this book examines the quality of state educational provisions from demographic institutional familial and cultural angles.</p><p>Rooted in rich qualitative data from five Chinese metropolitan cities it identifies the demographic changes in many state schools of becoming ‘migrant majority’ and the institutional reformation of ‘interim quasi-state’ schools under a low cost and inferior schooling approach. This book also digs into the ‘black box’ of cultural reproduction in school and family processes revealing both a gloomy side of many migrant children’s academic underachievement as a result of troubled home-school relations and a bright side that social inclusion of migrant children in state school promotes their adaptation to urban life. The author concludes that migrant children’s experiences in state (and quasi-state) schools turn them into a generation of ‘new urban working-class’.</p><p>The monograph will be of interest to scholars students practitioners and policymakers who want to better understand educational equality for migrants and other marginalised groups.</p>