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Migrating And Integrating-the Children Of Migrant Workers In The Urban Public Schools

Posted on:2012-09-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L H ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330368996207Subject:Educational Economy and Management
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China is undergoing the special historical period with the social dramatical transformation. Demographic changes, become the exterior characterization of social transformation. Since 1990's, farmers who used to work in the city individually have moved out with the whole family, or even chosen permanent migration. More and more rural children with parents migrate to the city. Children of migrant workers also gradually come into the researchers' sight. In contrast to their parents, these children in the school stage live in the city for a longer time. They face the living differences between the urban and rural area, thus they carry more profound significance about social changes.In the recent years, with the government's emphasis on that public school primarily receive children of migrant workers, the problem of equal entrance to the city schools has been well solved. But for these children, they will face a series of problems such as ingerating the new school, finishing socialization. And these will directly affect their social integration into the city.In view of these, the paper firstly analyses the theory research about immigrants and children of migrant workers, draw the theoretical level focus, deduce the analysis framework of school integratation from the two dimensions of structural integratation and thymogenic integratation. By making the spot observation, taking the manners of ethnography interviews and depth interviews, integrating into the children's school and family life scenes, we can see the significance of the dynamic process of school integratation with "insider perspective". It is important to understand the background of their school integratation and clarify the variety of experiences in their school integratation. Getting the knowledge of eterogeneity and displacement of cultural spaces, remodeling relationships, redesigning of the characters in the school and acquiring the belonging of the city school, are necessary for their school integratation. This paper attends to display the differences of these children's school integratatio, systematicly interprete their experiences of the migration and school integratation and different strategies that they have taken. Understanding the influence of migration and school integratation to the children of migrant workers, it will be significative not only for education workers and parents in helping the children adapt to this process, but children themselves also can do psychological preparation, implement better development in urban society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Children of Migrant Workers, Migration, School Integratation
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