Migrant Children in Shanghai: A Research Note on the PISA-Shanghai Controversy

Xu, Duoduo; Dronkers, Jaap

doi:10.1080/21620555.2016.1165605

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“…Finally, migrant children without local Hukou confront substantial barriers to educational opportunities in Shanghai, such as school enrolment, admission to senior high school, or participation in the university entrance exam (Li et al. 2010; Liang and Chen 2007; Wang and Holland 2011; Xu and Dronkers 2016). Since Chinese parents want the best for their children’s education (Xu and Yeung 2013), marrying a Shanghai Hukou resident is crucial for improving potential children’s educational opportunities.…”

Section: Shanghai Context and Hypothesesmentioning

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Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai

Qian

2017

Chinese Sociological Review

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Previous research on Hukou-based stratification mostly focuses on Hukou-derived labor market outcomes, with growing attention paid to the role of Hukou locality (local vs. nonlocal) as an increasingly important agent of social stratification in urban China. Few studies have, however, examined how Hukou shapes the patterns of who marries whom in geographically-defined marriage markets, despite the far-reaching implications of assortative mating for migrant integration into the host society, economic inequality among families, and intergenerational transmissions of social traits. In this paper, using a most recent, representative sample of the post-’80s generation living in Shanghai, we evaluate how Hukou locality intersects with educational attainment to shape assortative marriage patterns. We find that highly-educated Hukou residents and non-Hukou migrants are both more likely than their less-educated counterparts to marry a Hukou resident, suggesting that Shanghai Hukou is a valuable attribute in Shanghai marriage market. In addition, Hukou intermarriage seldom occurs when Hukou residents marry a non-Hukou migrant with less education than themselves. The results indicate that Hukou locality is an important stratifier in contemporary China that shapes marriage market conditions and individual mating choices.

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Section: Shanghai Context and Hypothesesmentioning

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Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai

Qian

2017

Chinese Sociological Review

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“…First, most of our commentary is centered on Shanghai-China's national experimental laboratory, so it is not representative of China as a whole. Second, we do not analyze PISA statistics, analysis or political debates in depth as these have been covered in depth in multiple forms and formats (e.g., OECD, 2010;Xu & Dronkers, 2016). Third, our discussion is purposefully limited and does not claim to cover all aspects of education in China.…”

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Exploring the Mysteries of School Success in Shanghai

Walker

Qian

2018

ECNU Review of Education

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Purpose-The purpose of the paper is to discuss some of the mysteries around the much-touted recent success of school education in China and to explore some of the key conditions that may underpin the success. Design/Approach/Methods-It is a conceptual paper. A wide range of available data and literature has been consulted and analyzed to carefully marshal arguments about how to understand the mysteries and the conditions underpinning the success. Findings-The paper discusses four mysteries around education success in China. It argues for the development of a fuller and more contextualized perspective to view the success. The paper further suggests that neither of the four general conditions for success-values, reform, leadership or teaching approaches-taken alone, can explain pathways to success. Originality/Value-The paper provides an original explanatory description of the mysteries of education success and underlying conditions. This paper helps fill a gap in Western understanding of the "why" and "how" of school success in China.

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“…As informed by other research using census data (Liang and Chen 2007;Wu and Zhang 2015), the dropout rate is significantly higher for migrant children than left-behind children. Using a recent school-based survey in Shanghai (the Program for International Student Assessment, PISA), Xu and Dronkers (2016) suggest that hukou regulations in school admission lead to a positively selected migrant children group in urban schools. In other words, the outperformance of migrant children (especially those who have acquired local hukou) in urban schools could at least partially be attributed to positive selection.…”

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Not a zero-sum game: Migration and child well-being in contemporary China

Zhang³

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BACKGROUND The complex impact of migration on children's development has received extensive attention in both developed and developing countries. In China, more than 100 million children are directly affected by the massive internal migration. OBJECTIVE This study investigates the impact of different migration processes (parental migration, child migration, and hukou conversion) on Chinese children's developmental outcomes, measured by their cognitive abilities, school engagement, school attachment, physical and mental health, educational aspirations, and confidence about the future. METHODS We analyze the data from a nationally representative, school-based survey covering approximately 20,000 children aged 12 to 16 in both rural and urban areas. We employ the propensity score matching method to ensure different groups of children are intrinsically comparable to each other. RESULTS Migration both brings benefits and imposes costs on children. Bringing rural children to cities significantly improves their school performance and physical health but also reduces their educational aspirations and increases their anxiety toward the future.

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Migrant Children in Shanghai: A Research Note on the PISA-Shanghai Controversy

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai

Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai

Exploring the Mysteries of School Success in Shanghai

Not a zero-sum game: Migration and child well-being in contemporary China

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