China's left-behind children : caretaking, parenting, and struggles /

"The unprecedented rural-to-urban migration in China over the past three decades has placed the social phenomenon of "left-behind children" at the forefront of sociological inquiry. One unintended consequence of this mass migration is the exponentially increased size of left-behind ch...

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Hlavní autor: Chen, Xiaojin (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
Edice:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530889
Obsah:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Who Leaves and Who Stays? Factors Associated with Parental Migration and Caretaking Arrangements
  • 3 Caretaking at Home: Grandparenting and One-Parent Caretaking
  • 4 Parenting from Afar: Long-Distance Parenting and Short Visits
  • 5 "Have You Finished Your Homework?": Parental Migration, Caretaking Practices, and Children's Schooling
  • 6 Are Left-Behind Children More Deviance-and Delinquency-Prone?
  • 7 Children's Psychological Well-Being: Caretaking Practices, Long-Distance Parenting, and Ambiguous Loss
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR