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Systematic barriers to schooling of migrant workers’ children and policy recommendations

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Frontiers of Education in China

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A population of migrant workers have appearing during the process of China’s urbanization, and is an important part of the society that cannot be ignored. In the process of integration into cities, the equal development between the rights and obligations of migrant workers is gaining attention. Especially, the issure of schooling of their children has garnered a lot of attention. All problems resulting from schooling of their children are rooted in the asynchronization between system changes and social development. Systematic barriers have become the crux of schooling problem of migrant workers’ children.

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农民工作为中国城镇化进程中出现的特殊群体, 是社会不可忽视的重要组成部分。 农民工在融入城市这一过程中权利与义务的对等发展逐渐引起整个社会的重视与关注, 农民工子女就学问题作为其中之一更是社会关注的焦点。 农民工子女就学问题中暴露出的问题归根结底是制度的变革与社会发展的不同步造成的。 制度性障碍已经成为影响农民工子女就学的重要症结所在。

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Translated by WANG Dongsheng from Dongbei Shifan Daxue Xuebao 东北师范大学学报 (Journal of Northeast Normal University), 2007, 6(1): 152–156

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Wang, Z. Systematic barriers to schooling of migrant workers’ children and policy recommendations. Front. Educ. China 4, 298–311 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-009-0016-z

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