Differentiated childhoods: Impacts of rural labor migration on left-behind children in China

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 355-377

  Jingzhong, Ye ^a   Lu, Pan ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Left behind children; Rural urban migration; Split family

Indexed keywords

CHILD; FAMILY STRUCTURE; LABOR MIGRATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATION; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATIONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 79953167520     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2011.559012     Document Type: Article

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