The Department of Sociology and the Center for East Asian Studies present:
 
“Rural Migrant Children in China’s Urban Schools: Patterns and Conceptual Issues”
 
Speaker: Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University
 
China’s contemporary rural migration has brought to Chinese cities over 200 million adults and more than fifty percent of these adults’ children by 2011.  What are the educational opportunities for children of rural migrants?  How does rural migration reshape the landscape of educational inequality?  This paper unites two separate strands of theories on rural migration and educational inequality to understand the emerging new forms of inequality of educational opportunity measured by enrollment status and types of schools among rural migrant children aged 7-15.