Life on the Watershed: An Ethnographic Study of Tracking Migrant Children's Choices After Junior High

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  • WAN Yi
    九州大学大学院人間環境学府　教育システム専攻

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  • 人生の分水嶺 : 「農民工子女」の中学校卒業後の選択を追跡する民族誌的研究

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This paper attempts to explain why education fails to facilitate upward mobility in an earlier stage for migrant children in China through an ethnographic study of their choices after finishing compulsory education. Based on fieldwork in an urban city in Zhejiang province and two poor villages in Anhui province, participation observations and deep interviews with four migrant children were conducted between 2017-2019. These interviews are selected for typical reasons that they represent four different choices: go to vocational education in urban cities; go to high schools in urban cities; go to high schools in hometowns alone; go to high school in hometowns with the whole family. This study focuses on how they and their families progress to higher education or employment after compulsory education under the influence of different economic status, family relationships and educational backgrounds, and how they explain their choices and expectations of their lives after made different decisions.

Introduction / Methods / Primary and Junior High School Education for migrant children in Zhejiang during 2000s / Results and Findings / 　Interviewee A: no choices but vocational schools / 　Interviewee B: back to the rural hometown with parents / 　Interviewee C: back to the rural hometown alone / 　Interviewee D: price for changing her Hukou / Conclusion and Discussion

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