1st Edition
Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing Migration, education, and policy in urban China
1. Introduction 2. Migrant children’s education in China’s cities and the emergence of a new policy area 3. The growth and development of migrant schools in Beijing 4. "Under the same blue sky"? Central and Beijing municipal policies on migrant children's education 5. Decentralization and migrant children’s education in Beijing: the significance of district policy approaches 6. The survival and development of migrant schools in Beijing: impacts of the municipal and district policy approaches 7. The survival and development of migrant schools in Beijing: the role of civil society 8. Implications for the future
Biography
Myra Pong earned her PhD from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong in 2014–15. She has Bachelors and Masters degrees in international relations and affairs from Brown University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Peking University.
"This book provides a detailed analysis of how policy (in this case the education of migrant children) is formulated and then implemented in China. This is its unique contribution – the in depth study is very exhaustive and rewarding in terms of the insights that emerge." -- Adjunct Associate Professor Robyn Iredale, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra
