| ID | 139550 |
| Title Proper | Broken ladder |
| Other Title Information | why education provides no upward mobility for migrant children in China |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Xiong, Yihan |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Quarterly , No. 221; Mar 2015: p.161-184 |
| Journal Source | China Quarterly No 221 |
| Key Words | China ; Social Mobility ; Class Reproduction ; Institutional Discrimination ; Ceiling Effect ; Migrant Education ; Counter - School Culture |