scholarly journals Perceived discrimination, schooling arrangements and psychological adjustments of rural-to-urban migrant children in Beijing, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 713-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihua Chen ◽  
Shaobing Su ◽  
Xiaoming Li ◽  
Cheuk Chi Tam ◽  
Danhua Lin
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Beijing China

Differential impacts of social support on mental health: A comparison study of Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescents and their urban counterparts in Beijing, China

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Yu Zhuang ◽  
Daniel Fu Keung Wong
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Internal Migrant ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Migrant Adolescents ◽  
Beijing China

Background: The number of internal migrant children in China has reached 35.8 million by the end of 2010. Previous studies revealed inconsistent findings regarding the mental health status of rural-to-urban migrant adolescents, as well as the impact of peer, teacher and parental support on the mental health of Chinese adolescent migrants. Aims: Using a comparative approach, this study attempted to compare the mental health status between migrant and urban-born adolescents and to clarify the specific roles of different sources of social support in the mental health of migrant and urban adolescents. Method: A cross-sectional survey using a cluster convenience sampling strategy was performed in Beijing, China. A structured questionnaire was filled out by 368 rural-to-urban migrant adolescents and 325 urban-born adolescents. Results: A significant difference was found only for positive affect (PA) but not for negative affect (NA) between the two groups, favouring the urban-born adolescents. Social support from all the three sources were all predictive of PA among rural-to-urban migrant adolescents, while only peer support contributed to PA among urban-born adolescents. Unexpectedly, teachers’ support contributed to an increase in NA among urban-born adolescents. Conclusion: The findings contribute to understanding of the mental health status of migrant adolescents in China and the differential impact of the various sources of social support on migrant and urban-born adolescents. Also the findings may inform the development of mental health services and programmes that can potentially benefit a large number of internal migrant adolescents in China.

Capital in Transition

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 706-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Dong
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Central China ◽  
Full Time ◽  
County Level ◽  
Value System ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Urban Migrant

Abstract Migrant children are an unintended consequence of the widened rural-urban gap in China. In Dengfeng, a county-level city in central China, many of the 70,000 full-time martial arts students were rural-to-urban migrant children ‘floating’ with their parents from one place to another. Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores why these migrant children ‘migrated’ to martial arts schools for educational purposes and how they and their parents seek to establish a new value system within which different forms of capital can be accumulated, disseminated, and transformed as society expects. This paper argues that the (imaginary) transition between and flow of economic, cultural, social, and symbolic capital construct a path to an aspirational future used by both these martial arts students and their parents.

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