The Inconvenient Generation

Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge

Minhua Ling (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
9781503610767 (ISBN)

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After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance. In The Inconvenient Generation, Minhua Ling offers the first longitudinal study of these migrant youth from middle school to the labor market in the years after the Shanghai municipal government partially opened its public school system to them. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data, Ling follows the trajectories of dozens of children coming of age at a time of competing economic and social imperatives, and its everyday ramifications on their sense of identity, educational outcomes, and citizenship claims. Under policies and practices of segmented inclusion, they are inevitably funneled through the school system toward a life of manual labor. Illuminating the aspirations and strategies of these young men and women, Ling captures their experiences against the backdrop of a reemergent global Shanghai.

Minhua Ling is Assistant Professor in the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Introduction: Coming of Age in an Urban Growth Dilemma
1. Living on the Periurban Edge
2. The "Reproduction Without Cultivation" Problem
3. Outsiders in Public Middle School
4. "Bad Students Go to Vocational Schools!"
5. To Go Home or Not
6. Buying Belonging
7. "No Good Prospects in Shanghai!"
Conclusion: Next-Generation Shanghai

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	17 halftones, 1 map, 7 tables
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781503610767 / 9781503610767
Zustand	Neuware