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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-186) and index. |
| Summary |
This book provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families by examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents, who remain in China. |
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"Migration, Education and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families, examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents who remain in China, separated from their only child. As these highly-educated, capital-bearing Chinese migrants continue to pursue their careers and establish families in the West, a deeply significant dilemma emerges: as the only child in the family, how do they balance their personal aspirations with responsibilities to their parents? This study is based on interviews conducted with the one-child generation of Chinese migrants in the UK and their parents in China. It charts the life course of these migrants, from their upbringing in China, to their decision to study overseas, and establish their lives abroad. Both children and parents reveal the human complexity that lies behind these choices regarding transnational mobility and immobility, temporal and spatial changes that have challenged the basis of traditional Chinese family values, which dominated intergenerational relations in China for more than two thousand years. Ultimately, this fascinating book demonstrates that the shifting multidimensional nature of an individual's identity demands a re-examination of definitions of international students, migrants, and family."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
China's Modernization: A Generational Leap -- Growing Up, Gender and Education in China -- One-Child Migrants in the UK: The Decision-Making Process, Mobility Trajectory and Parental Involvement -- The One-Child Family as a Transnational Dynamic Field: Money, Childcare and Aspiration -- Between Space and Time: Long-Term Home-Making in the UK and in China. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese students -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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Chinese students. |
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Great Britain. |
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Social conditions. |
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Chinese students -- Family relationships.
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Families. |
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Immigrants -- Great Britain.
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Immigrants. |
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Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Families -- China.
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China. |
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China -- Population policy.
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Population policy. |
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Transnationalism.
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Transnationalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tu, Mengwei. Education, migration and family relations between China and the UK. United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2018 1787146731 (OCoLC)1023601221 |
| ISBN |
9781787146723 (electronic book ; PDF) |
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1787146723 (electronic book ; PDF) |
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9781787430051 (electronic book ; ePub) |
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1787430057 (electronic book ; ePub) |
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9781787146730 (print) |
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1787146731 (print) |
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