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Education, Migration 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.
Price: $38.99
Pages: 216
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
23 October 2020
ISBN: 9781787548657
Format: Paperback
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As the grown children of one-child Chinese families migrate to other parts of the world, Lu asks, how do they balance their overseas aspirations and family relations with their parents in China. She conducted her sociological study among both the one-child generation of Chinese migrants in Britain and their parents in China, who were separated from their only child. The study looks at growing up as a single child in China, deciding to migrate, the transnational one-child family, and long-term home-making in Britain and China.
Mengwei Tu is Lecturer in Sociology at the East China University of Science and Technology, China. Prior to her post in China she completed her PhD at the University of Kent, UK. She has conducted extensive research among middle-class Chinese migrants in the UK and has published in international journals. Her current research involves overseas returnees in China, and the circulation of people, capital and talent associated with family and education.
Prologue
Introduction
1. China’s Modernisation: A Generational Leap
2. Growing Up, Gender, and Education in China
3. One-Child Migrants in the UK: The Decision-Making Process, Mobility Trajectory and Parental Involvement
4. The One-Child Family as a Transnational Dynamic Field: Money, Childcare and Aspiration
5. Between Space and Time: Long-Term Home-Making in Britain and in China
Conclusion