1. The Children of China's Great Migration.
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Thøgersen, Stig
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SOCIAL impact , *SOCIAL scientists , *RURAL families , *DIFFERENTIATION (Sociology) , *CHILD labor , *FAMILIES , *PARENTAL leave - Abstract
The third model, the "skipped generation family" where both parents work far from home and leave their children with grandparents, is so common in Chinese villages that Murphy can quote research showing that more than one fourth of all Chinese rural households belonged to this category in 2012. Murphy also finds considerable variation in the way gender differences were handled based on children's age, their academic performance, their migration status, and local habits. Over the last several decades, hundreds of millions of Chinese people have migrated from rural to urban areas to look for jobs, often leaving their children behind in the villages. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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