Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China: Power, Politics, Participation, and Education

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Preface
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1 Floating children and left-behind children in the migration context: a three-level field analysis of power, policy, and participation
	Government’s manipulation over migration: from control, through acquiescence, to favouritism
	Power, policy, and participation: floating children and left-behind children in an era of large-scale migration
		Government transitions and ideological reworkings: Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development, and the Chinese Dream
		Policies in the 1990s: institutional discrimination against floating children
		Policy making during the period from the early 2000s to 2013: do-gooder approach to floating children and left-behind children
		Policy making since 2013 onwards: favouritism towards left-behind children
	A sociological interpretation: cross-field effects and three-level field analysis
		Cross-field effects amongst the fields of power, policy, and education
		A three-level field analysis: power, politics, and participation
	Why resilience matters for floating children and left-behind children
2 Seminal work, paradigmatic shifts, and foundational models: approaching a sociology of child and youth resilience
	Conceptualising resilience: individual qualities, ecological resources, cultural contexts, and constructionist perspectives
	Modelling resilience: compensatory model, protective model, and challenge model
	Building resilience in everyday contexts: the “ordinary magic” of family, school, and community
	An emergent sociology of resilience
		Gender- and age-based resilience process
		Resilience as a classed project
		Building resilience for ethnic minority children
		Resilience as a set of embodied dispositions: the role of habitus
		Capital in child and youth resilience
	Developing a sociological definition of resilience
3 Quantifying child and youth resilience: methodological conundrum and psychometric validation
	Can resilience be measured in a no-risk condition?
	Can resilience be measured directly?
	Culture-sensitive approach to measuring resilience
	Validation of the Chinese version of the CYRM-12: research context, design, procedure, and results
		Text translation, back-translation, and face validity of the Chinese CYRM-12
		Internal consistency reliability of the Chinese CYRM-12
		Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
		Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA): construct validity of the Chinese CYRM-12
		Structural Equation Modelling (SEM): multi-group analysis and measurement invariance of the Chinese CYRM-12
		Convergent validity of the Chinese CYRM-12
	Methodological lessons from validation of the Chinese CYRM-12
4 Resistance as a sociological process of resilience: indigenous voices from under-resourced migrant families
	Resistance to imposed stereotype as a form of resilience
	The portrayal of Xiaobao: a floating child, an early school leaver
	The portrayal of Xiaoliu: a left-behind child, a dab hand at chores
	Disengagement in mainstream schooling and deviation from stereotyped desirable future
	Resistance, resilience, and sociological implications
5 Recreation, socialisation, and resilience: the “magic” of physical activity
	Physical activity: benefits for health and implications for resilience
	Stories about physical activity: recreation, socialisation, and resilience
	Statistical evidence: physical activity, resilience, and positive outcomes
	Problematising the deficit model and the ‘epistemological parochialism’
	Working through the stories and the statistics: hedonism and eudaimonism
	A compensatory model of building resilience
	Implications for school professionals, community workers, and policy makers
6 Social capital and community-based resilience building: Social Network Analysis, social connectedness, and social support
	Initiatives of community-based resilience building
	Local policy context in Beijing
	Evergreen community schools: sanctuary for floating children
	Resilience building and social networking within evergreen schools
	Resilience, social capital, and togetherness-of-differences
	Theoretical and methodological coda
7 Resilience in the face of illness, fear, and stigma: being floating, left behind, and HIV positive, so what?
	Resilience of HIV-positive children – a field that we know little about
	Vicissitudes of the resilience process of an HIV-positive youngster
		Attenuating the deficit of left-behind experience: domestic care, community socialisation, and school support
		Precipitous collapse of the foundation of resilience: falling prey to the affliction of migration
		Reverting to the normal trajectory and developing a better self: the power of resilience
	The ebbs and flows of resilience across time and space
8 Developing a sociology of resilience: reflexive learning and implications for practice, policy, and education
	Coming into a cultural inheritance: resilience as a habitus of Chineseness
	Continuous morphing of floating and left-behind phenomena
	Implications for intervention design and policy making
	Participant objectivation
	Concluding remarks
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