文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：The transnational one-child generation: family relationships and overseas aspiration between China and the UK

作者：Tu, Mengwei[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Sociol, Shanghai, Peoples R China

年份：2019

卷号：17

期号：5

起止页码：565

外文期刊名：CHILDRENS GEOGRAPHIES

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000483559400006)】；

语种：英文

外文关键词：One-child generation; Chinese middle class; transnational families; capital accumulation; international students

摘要：Education-motivated migration from East Asia is regarded as a family capital accumulation project where middle class families reproduce their socioeconomic advantage at a transnational level. This study focuses on one-child generation migrants from mainland China who came to study in the UK as teenagers or young adults but remained to work as professionals after their education. Caught between the British social/employment system and the Chinese family system, the one-child migrants showed a fragmented sense of belonging and a high level of uncertainty in the migration plan. The pervasive Confucian family culture in these transnational families also calls for an expanded conceptualisation of the term 'children' and a long-term observation of their mobility curve in the project. This paper incorporates rational motivation with human complexity in the context of transnational reality, thus it contributes to a more nuanced understanding of changing intergenerational relationships in the transnational family capital accumulation project.