Impact of Second-Parent Migration on Student Academic Performance in Northwest China and its Implications.
The migration of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese workers to the city has contributed substantially to China's economic growth since the beginning of the country's economic reform in 1978. However, this migration has also led to societal issues, including more than 60 million left-behind childr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 1523 - 1541 |
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