Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China: Pathways to the Urban Underclass

by Miao Li

Book Overview

In East Asian economies such as China, recent mass rural-urban migration has created a new urban underclass, as have their children. However, their inclusion in urban public schools is a surprisingly slow process, and youth identities in newly industrialized countries remain largely neglected. Faced with monetary and institutional barriers, the majority of migrant youth attend low-quality or underperforming migrant schools, without access to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138084794
• ISBN13: 9781138084797
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"