Case Analysis on Young Rural Migrants
Characteristics of the New Cohort of Migrants
Referred to the Story (Hu, 2012), the characteristics of young rural migrants as summarized in this section.
Young migrants, who were born after 1980, are first stepping into the metropolis at an average age of 17.2, much earlier than the previous generation (Hu, 2012). This new group of working force leaves regular schools early, which implies a low education level on average.
With the recent rapid development in the rural area, young people seldom need to involve in heavy agricultural works. A majority of them prefers less physically demanding jobs in the light industry. A typical example is the manufacturing industry which has bloomed after the launching …show more content…
In contrast, a minority of cases are not suitable for being assessed by the social migration patterns. Other than career opportunities, there are other motivations for rural population to move into cities, such as achieving higher education, marriage across counties, family reuniting, retirement. People of the above cases are not intended to earn income. Thus, categorizing them into the patterns could be misleading.
Nonetheless, the social migration patterns relied on a research of small sample size. The research has merely 200 participants, which are negligible when compared to around 137 million of migrant workers in 2007 (Chan, 2013). Moreover, the research was carried out only in two cities. Apparently, the distribution as in Figure 1 of the Story has low confidence level to represent the reality. Therefore, it is difficult to draw further convincing conclusions which concern the distribution among the four divisions for the reality.
Challenges Faced by the New-generation …show more content…
However, working at a far distance away, parents might mentally suffer for worrying their children at home. Left-behind children are prone to sexual abuse, behavior problems, nutritional deficiencies and psychological problems (Chen, 2016c; Gao, 2010; Lee, 2011). Without sufficient parental guidance, there is a high chance migrant children suffer from emotional problems and experience poor academic results (Liang, 2016).
Conclusions
This case analysis has summarized the differences between the new generation of rural migrants as compared with the previous generations. Then, the social migration patterns are briefly commented. Finally, challenges faced by the rural migrants are discussed.
After reading articles and publications during preparation for writing the case analysis, it was realized the situation had been changed recently. The central government has been carrying out measures to improve the problems recently (Shi, 2008). Besides, rapid rural development, in related to positive public policies and return entrepreneurs (Liang, 2016), has attracted workers to stay in their
Characteristics of the New Cohort of Migrants
Referred to the Story (Hu, 2012), the characteristics of young rural migrants as summarized in this section.
Young migrants, who were born after 1980, are first stepping into the metropolis at an average age of 17.2, much earlier than the previous generation (Hu, 2012). This new group of working force leaves regular schools early, which implies a low education level on average.
With the recent rapid development in the rural area, young people seldom need to involve in heavy agricultural works. A majority of them prefers less physically demanding jobs in the light industry. A typical example is the manufacturing industry which has bloomed after the launching …show more content…
In contrast, a minority of cases are not suitable for being assessed by the social migration patterns. Other than career opportunities, there are other motivations for rural population to move into cities, such as achieving higher education, marriage across counties, family reuniting, retirement. People of the above cases are not intended to earn income. Thus, categorizing them into the patterns could be misleading.
Nonetheless, the social migration patterns relied on a research of small sample size. The research has merely 200 participants, which are negligible when compared to around 137 million of migrant workers in 2007 (Chan, 2013). Moreover, the research was carried out only in two cities. Apparently, the distribution as in Figure 1 of the Story has low confidence level to represent the reality. Therefore, it is difficult to draw further convincing conclusions which concern the distribution among the four divisions for the reality.
Challenges Faced by the New-generation …show more content…
However, working at a far distance away, parents might mentally suffer for worrying their children at home. Left-behind children are prone to sexual abuse, behavior problems, nutritional deficiencies and psychological problems (Chen, 2016c; Gao, 2010; Lee, 2011). Without sufficient parental guidance, there is a high chance migrant children suffer from emotional problems and experience poor academic results (Liang, 2016).
Conclusions
This case analysis has summarized the differences between the new generation of rural migrants as compared with the previous generations. Then, the social migration patterns are briefly commented. Finally, challenges faced by the rural migrants are discussed.
After reading articles and publications during preparation for writing the case analysis, it was realized the situation had been changed recently. The central government has been carrying out measures to improve the problems recently (Shi, 2008). Besides, rapid rural development, in related to positive public policies and return entrepreneurs (Liang, 2016), has attracted workers to stay in their