The urbanization of people : the politics of development, labor markets, and schooling in the Chinese city /
During the summer of 2011, the Beijing municipal government launched population control measures to clear the children of migrant workers from the city. Just weeks before the beginning of the school year, bulldozers demolished more than two dozen schools serving families who had migrated to the capi...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Conceptualizing the politics of urbanization : the just-in-time response
- Urban developmentalism and the inverted welfare state
- The migrant school : concentrated deprivation
- Rendered surplus : parents navigate "population control via education"
- Population management's "hard edge" : school closures and demolitions
- Reproductive shock absorbers : migrant school teachers
- Conclusion: Global extensions.