Home divided, home reconstructed: children in rural–urban migration in contemporary China
Home divided, home reconstructed: children in rural–urban migration in contemporary China
This article is centred on the geographies of Chinese children in contemporary China – an area which has been problematically overlooked in geographical literature on childhood. In employing unique mobile research methods by tracking migrant children through the migration cycle, the author conducted an extensive ethnographic study of rural migrant children aged 8–17 in China. The article explores rural children's everyday lived experience of migration and how migrant children negotiate and articulate home and belonging while on the move. The study demonstrates the dynamic environment that migrant children inhabit, the fluid, contextual and mobile nature of their life in rural migrant households, their migrancy and their active involvement in homemaking.
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Zhang, Nana
228add83-6d52-4cbb-a0d0-f6cebc3bca0e
28 October 2015
Zhang, Nana
228add83-6d52-4cbb-a0d0-f6cebc3bca0e
Zhang, Nana
(2015)
Home divided, home reconstructed: children in rural–urban migration in contemporary China.
Children's Geographies, 13 (4), .
(doi:10.1080/14733285.2013.848600).
Abstract
This article is centred on the geographies of Chinese children in contemporary China – an area which has been problematically overlooked in geographical literature on childhood. In employing unique mobile research methods by tracking migrant children through the migration cycle, the author conducted an extensive ethnographic study of rural migrant children aged 8–17 in China. The article explores rural children's everyday lived experience of migration and how migrant children negotiate and articulate home and belonging while on the move. The study demonstrates the dynamic environment that migrant children inhabit, the fluid, contextual and mobile nature of their life in rural migrant households, their migrancy and their active involvement in homemaking.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 28 October 2015
Published date: 28 October 2015
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Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, Social Sciences
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Local EPrints ID: 363556
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363556
ISSN: 1473-3285
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