Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes o

This book explores social citizenship through the lens of investigating local compulsory education policy targeting migrant children in Beijing and Guangzhou. D

In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one m

There are more than 225 million rural-to-urban migrant workers, and some 20 million migrant children in Chinese cities. Because of policies related to the house

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evide