Description:
Recent mass rural-urban migration in China has created a new urban underclass. However, youth identities in newly industrialized countries are largely neglected, and their inclusion in urban public schools remains a surprisingly slow process.This volume examines the consequences of urban schooling and citizenship education through which school and social processes contribute to the production of unequal class relations. It opens up the "black box" of citizenship education in China and examines the effect of school and societal forces on social mobility and life trajectories.
Review Quotes:
'This meticulously researched ethnography gives vivid insights into the schooling experiences of migrant children in China's burgeoning cities. They are destined to low status occupations and ongoing disadvantage in spite of the rhetoric of individual effort and meritocratic opportunity. Miao Li has effectively adapted social reproduction theories to highlight this harsh underside of China's meteoric rise.' - Ruth Hayhoe, Professor, University of Toronto
"Based on substantial ethnographic data, Miao Li depicts the day-to-day interrelations among school staff, teachers, migrant students and their parents, reveals how these influence migrant youth's educational outcomes, their identities and schooling beliefs, and further discusses what the role of urban school is in determining migrant youth's social position."- Mo Wang, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Germany