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Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context

Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Guanglun Michael Mu

    1. Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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  2. Yang Hu

    1. Central University of Finance and Economics, China

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  • The book questions social inequalities through the ‘left-behind’ and the ‘floating’ phenomena
  • The book respects diversity and enhances inclusivity through problematising structural constraints instead of pathologising individual dispositions
  • The book reconceptualises children in adversities as resilient agents rather than vulnerable victims

Part of the book series: Spotlight on China (SPOT)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Urbanisation and Migration

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 1-23

  3. The Wellbeing of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 25-46

  4. Coming into An Inheritance

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 47-77

  5. Rural Dispositions of Floating Children in Urban Fields

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 79-100

  6. Living with Kin Caregivers

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 101-122

  7. Education and Personal Development of Children Left Behind

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 123-142

  8. Floating Children and Left-Behind Children as Resilient Agents

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 143-164

  9. Conclusion

    • Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu
    Pages 165-173

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-193
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About this book

The book grapples with social inequality, inclusivity, and diversity through the discussions of wellbeing, wellbecoming, and resilience of floating children and left-behind children. It invites families, schools, communities, social organisations, and governments to rethink and recognise the qualities of left-behind children and floating children. The book will be of interest to research students, sociologists of education, educational studies scholars, social workers, school professionals, and policy makers in and beyond China.





The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth are a myriad population of floating children and left-behind children and the ever greater social-spatial interpenetration that places these children at risk of undesirable wellbeing. The living and schooling of these children are fraught with potholes and distractions in the context of migration and urbanisation. Extant work often treats floating children and left-behind children as two discrete populations and comes to grips with their wellbeing separately. The deficit model and the ‘do-gooder’ approach have prevailed for a long time, intending to fix the “problems” and correct the “abnormalities” associated with these children. This book differs, however, in its efforts to blur the dichotomy between floating children and left-behind children; in its transformative view and strength-based approach that recast vulnerabilities into opportunities; and in its focus on the nurture of enabling ecologies instead of the nature of individual inferiorities.





Authors and Affiliations

  • Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    Guanglun Michael Mu

  • Central University of Finance and Economics, China

    Yang Hu

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Living with Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in a Migration Context

  • Book Subtitle: Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China

  • Authors: Guanglun Michael Mu, Yang Hu

  • Series Title: Spotlight on China

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-785-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-785-6Published: 25 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 194

  • Topics: Education, general

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