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29 January 2008, Volume 32 Issue 1

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A Comparative Analysis of Educational Opportunities for Migrant,Stay and Other Children in Rural China

Yang Juhua, Duan Chengrong

2008, 32(1):  11-21. 

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Large-scale labor migration in the past two decades in China has reshaped the household structure of migrants,generating numerous "stay children" and migrating children with or without parent(s).Stay children and some migrant children live in nontraditional households without parent(s)’s immediate,which would have profound implications for their education.Drawing on the 2000 Census data,this paper explores the patterns and characteristics of school attendance,and compares the educational opportunities of stay,migrant,and other children(living with parents) ages 11-14 in the countryside.Analytical results suggest that stay children are more likely to enroll in school than other types of children,but such effect varies by whom the children stay or migrate with:those staying with mothers are most advantaged,while those migrating alone or with parents mostly disadvantaged.It is thus urgent to promote the educational wellbeing of children in father-child families and of migrating children.

Suburbanization or Urbanization? A Discussion on Development Stages of the City of Beijing

Huang Rongqing

2008, 32(1):  34-42. 

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Suburbanization is one of the stages of urban development.Some scholars suggest that the big cities in China have generally entered the stage of suburbanization.This paper examines in details the city of Beijing which is described earliest by the scholars to be typical of suburbanization.Since the 1980s,concentration has mainly characterized migration in Beijing.Change in population distribution is a result of adjusting population in central urban districts.Urban development is represented by geographical expansion of the central urban districts.This suggests that urban development in Beijing is in the stage of urbanization rather than suburbanization.Characteristics in population change in different stages of urban development from urbanization to suburbanization are discussed,and the author argues that the big cities in China,with the exception of Shanghai,are still in the stage of urbanization.