Migrant Parenting and Mobile Phone Use: Building Quality Relationships between Chinese Migrant Workers and their Left-behind Children
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DOI: 10.1007/s11482-016-9498-z
Abstract: This study examines the uses and derived gratifications of mobile phones among migrant parents in communicating with children they left behind. Data were gathered from a sample of 378 migrant parents who worked in factories… read more here.
Keywords: mobile phones; quality; left behind; migrant parents ... See more keywords
Getting rural migrant children into school in South China: migrant agency and parenting
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DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2019.1578531
Abstract: ABSTRACT Scholarship has examined how immigrant parents in North America and Europe acculturate their children to the education system in their receiving societies, with a focus on overcoming language barriers and coping with cultural differences… read more here.
Keywords: getting rural; south china; migrant parents; migrant children ... See more keywords
Do Transnational Child-Raising Arrangements Affect Job Outcomes of Migrant Parents? Comparing Angolan Parents in Transnational and NonTransnational Families in the Netherlands
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DOI: 10.1177/0192513x17710773
Abstract: Transnational family literature has established that parent–child separations affect negatively on the emotional well-being of migrant parents. Less attention has been paid to other effects separation can have on these parents’ lives. Building on insights… read more here.
Keywords: transnational family; job outcomes; migrant parents; job ... See more keywords