Ageing in rural China: migration and care circulation

Ageing in rural China: migration and care circulation

This article applies the concept of care circulation (Baldassar and Merla, Transnational families, migration and the circulation of care: understanding mobility and absence in family life, 2013) to the processes involved in the care of old people in rural China, an area which has hitherto been predominantly located in a quantitatively based intergenerational transfer framework. Drawing upon a q...

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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on Familial Elder Care in Rural China

Mass rural-urban migration and population aging are occurring simultaneously at a rapid speed in contemporary China. Tens of millions of rural young laborers have been migrating to urban areas to meet the demand for cheap labor, whereas large numbers of elderly parents (the Chinese baby boomers) are left behind in the impoverished villages. Consequently, adult children are becoming more and mor...

Maternity Nonagricultural Employment, Rural-Urban Migration, Maternal Care and Child Health – Evidence from Rural China

The ratio of women participating in nonagricultural work has increased significantly in rural China since the so-called “Market Economy” was adopted in the 1980s. This phenomenon has had a great impact on family income earning patterns and poverty reduction. However, from the perspective of the woman’s dual identity in the family – income earner and child caregiver – the change in work patterns...

Urbanization and Health Care in Rural China

Since the early 1980s, strong economic growth has led to remarkable urbanization across many urban and rural areas in China. Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study obtained the first empirical estimates of how health insurance and access to care among the rural population were changed in response to the process of urbanization and other factors. Th...