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The Broken Ladder: Why Education Provides No Upward Mobility for Migrant Children in China.
- Source :
- China Quarterly; Mar2015, Vol. 221, p161-184, 24p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper attempts to explain why education fails to facilitate upward mobility for migrant children in China. By comparing a public school and a private migrant school in Shanghai, two mechanisms are found to underpin the reproduction of the class system: the ceiling effect, which is at work in public schools, and the counter-school culture, which prevails in private migrant schools. Both mechanisms might be understood as adaptations to the external circumstances of – and institutional discrimination against – migrants rather than as resistance to the prevailing institutional systems. Thus, the functioning of these mechanisms further strengthens the inequality embodied in the system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03057410
- Volume :
- 221
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- China Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101620599
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741015000016