State-Dominated Civil Society and Migrant Children's Education in Beijing

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ID11471950
AuthorsMyra Pong (Completed her PhD in Development Studies at IDS, University of Sussex in 2013., corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume45
Issue2-3
Pages70-82
Publication date2014-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIDS Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436
PublisherInstitute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1759-5436.12084
OpenAlexW2132195909
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

In China, the ‘tidal wave’ of rural migrant workers has created unique challenges for the government, one being migrant children's education in cities. Despite central policies emphasising the roles of receiving governments and public schools in providing compulsory education for these children, many migrant children in Beijing still attend privately run, often unlicensed migrant schools. Though migrant children's education is attracting increasing government and societal attention, questions concerning the extent to which this decentralisation of responsibilities has created space for civil society in the policy process remain unexplored. This article examines the role of the civil society actors involved and draws on qualitative interviews and the author's fieldwork experience to show that their limited capacity to significantly impact the situations of these schools is shaped by a lack of state–civil society interaction, as well as limited collaboration between key civil society actors and low levels of interaction amongst the schools themselves

Beijing · China · Civil society · Commons · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Migrant workers · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomics · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law

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