随着我国城镇化的发展和城乡迁移人口的大幅增加，越来越多进城务工人员选择让子女随迁进入城市。在城乡教育水平存在差异的情况下，让子女随迁或留守反映着家庭对高质量教育的需求，同时也有可能改变家庭中教育资源的分配状况。政府是基础教育总成本的主要承担者，政策上可以通过增加政府教育的投入来减轻家庭的私人负担。因此，家庭负担的私人成本大小与政府的供给具有密切的关系。 / 本研究主要采用2008年CHIP（Chinese Household Income Project）数据，从需求的角度考察随迁选择及其对教育支出的影响。研究进一步加入了流出老家和流入城市两地的县级的宏观教育财政数据来反映政府教育供给状况，并探讨了家庭支出和政府供给的相关关系。研究首先采用Probit 回归对随迁选择影响因素进行分析发现，除了个体、家庭和地区因素外，城市教育财政支出是家庭进行随迁选择的拉动力，城乡间教育支出的相对差异也显著地促进随迁选择；研究的第二部分采用倾向得分匹配法寻找随迁与家庭教育支出的因果关系。结果发现，与留守相比，随迁会导致家庭校内教育支出的显著增加，其中进入公办学校的家庭支出增加62%至64%左右。最后，结合政府供给水平对家庭需求的影响，作者发现，流入地政府的教育支出有助于提高流动儿童进入公办学校的机会，与家庭教育支出存在着挤入效应，随着政府支出的增加，家庭需要负担更多的私人成本。 / 研究首次将政府供给水平与随迁子女的教育需求进行结合，具有一定的创新意义。 结论中关于城乡教育支出差异对随迁选择的积极作用，有助于中央或地方政府通过促进城乡均衡发展对随迁过程进行引导；而随迁家庭需要承担高额教育支出的客观事实，也有利于家庭进行随迁选择时充分地考虑成本因素；研究最后发现的挤入效应反映了流入地县级政府教育财力的缺陷，明确了中央政府承担责任的必要性。 / Whiles urbanization and rural-urban migration in China have been increased rapidly in recent years, more and more migration workers have chosen to bring their children to urban migration destinations. Because of the huge rural-urban gap in education funding, the choice of migrating with children versus leaving them behind in rural areas reflects demand of high educational quality by families. Further, different migration behaviors could also affect households’ resource allocation on education. Since government plays a major role on the total cost of basic education, policies can be implemented to release family’s budget constraint by raising the education finance. As a result, the extent to which private education cost by migrant households is closely related to the level of public funding. / Using the 2008 Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) data, my thesis attempts to investigate the determinants of family migration decision on children and the impact of children migration on educational expenditure. I merge the CHIP data with the macro educational fiscal data in migrants’ place of origin and destination to to indicate the public fiscal support, and explore the relationship between household expenditure and governmental funding on education. I first run probit regressions to explore factors of migration decision on whether to bring children together or not. Results suggest that controlling for individual, household and regional characteristics, the level of educational funding in urban destinations is a key driving force for children’s migration. In addition, the gap on educational funding between urban and rural areas is positively related to children’s migration. I then examine the casual impact of children’s migration on households’ education expenditure using the Propensity Score Matching method. The estimates show that children’s migration to urban areas induces higher household educational expenditure. Compared with the cost for left-behind children, the household expenditure for migrant children in urban public schools is around 62% to 64% higher. Lastly, I investigate the effects of public fiscal support at destination areas on migrant household’s demand on education. It is evident that higher level of public funding increases the probability of enrolling in public schools. I also find crowding-in effect of government spending on private investment, which implies that families need to pay more when government expenditure increases / My research is innovative as it is the first study to consider both private demand and pubic supply in children’s migration issue. It is informative for either local or central government to consider balance the educational investment in both rural and urban areas if the governments intend to reduce children’s rural-to-urban migration with their parents. Further, my results might be helpful for migrant parents to understand the costs associated with migrating children together: there is potential higher expenditure that they need to bare even if their children can be enrolled in better quality urban public schools. Finally, crowding-in effect suggests that public educational resources in destination areas are limited which calls for support from the central government. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 曹妍. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-158). / Abstracts also in English. / Cao Yan.

自中國改革開放以來，大量的農村人口流動到城巿工作。在中國的移民／遷移研究當中，家庭、女性、制度等常為研究人員的研究對象及研究範式，卻鮮以性別視角研究男性的打工經驗及個人的遷移經歷。這一點對於理解男性在遷移及打工過程中，如何回應城鄉之間的差異，包括工業化及全球化下的中國經濟模式以及各種意識形態的轉變，具有極為重要的價值。面對著大量流動於不同社會的男性群體，我們對於他們的身份建構、工作遭遇、因著男性身份而在各個領域中所經歴的差異等理解甚少。是次研究以南中國農民工為例，與12 位以服務性行業為主的男性農民工進行了深入訪談，並以男性特質論（Masculinities）作為分析框架。研究發現在城巿及巿場的影響之下，男性農民工的男性特質具有物質化特性，這種男性特質的再建構是男性農民工面對現代化及都巿生活下的一種價值轉變及回應。與此同時，在物質化男性特質影響下，男性農民工對於家庭產生一種循環性的虧欠感及對其自我評價產生負面影響。 / Since the Open Door Policy of China, a great proportion of people in the rural areas mobilized to the city for work, Family, female and institution are usually the subjects and perspectives in the trend of recent China internal migration studies. However, male migrant workers, as a gender subject, is usually absent in those researches and their experience in the city should be revealed. The changing identities and asculinities performance are significant perspective for us in understating the male migrant workers subjectivities transformation underthe influences from city and market. This study aims at using Masculinities as a framework to investigate the effect of cities and markets on the male migrant workers in south China. Twelve In-depth interviews with male migrant workers, whose are mainly in service industry in these 2 years (2012-2013), were conducted. This research discovers that their Masculinities were materialized under the influences of city and market when they are working in the cities, and the materialized masculinity lead(s) them to have a low self-appraisal and selfregret to their family. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 彭梽樃. / Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-50). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Peng Zhilang.

Research Report Global Labour University, Department of Sociology University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg September 26th, 2014 / This research report looks at the historic farm worker strikes and protests that took place during late 2012 and early 2013, involving thousands of farm workers and the rural poor in the Western Cape, with a view to answering: 1) why did the protests take place when they did; 2) how did the protests spread across the Western Cape; and 3) did the mass participation of the protests turn into formal organisation. The research was conducted primarily through in-depth interviews with participants and observers of the protests during field visits to the Western Cape in late 2013 and early 2014. The findings of the report suggest that farm owners, responding to top-down pressures of shifting global production standards and competition, along with increased government regulation and worker protections, continue to move toward a more seasonal, outsourced, and off-farm labour force; the transformation of the workforce is leading to a breakdown or re-negotiation of two of the major impediments to overt, confrontational, and collective action, namely paternalistic social construction and farm worker isolation. These longer-term trends combined with the spark of a small, successful strike and an increasing sense of tactics, strategy, and possibility to ignite a large-scale strike in one of the major farming towns in the area. With the help of television coverage featuring scenes of this protest and a clear demand by protestors themselves for an increase in the minimum wage, local organisations then served as “coordinating” units, alongside a range of more informal networks, to spread the protest and its easily replicable tactics to towns around the region. In part because farm workers do not have meaningful access to the more institutional vehicles for expressing their grievances, the protests took on a more bottom-up, “spontaneous” nature and spread, with the strategy of disruption and its emerging repertoires of contention serving as key sources of power. Because of the unique nature of the protests and the shifting nature of farm worker identities, most of the participating organisations were unsuccessful at translating the mass participation of the protests into greatly expanded levels of formal organisation. This challenge of turning participation into organisation was exacerbated by a major backlash by farm owners after the protest, as well as by some of the organising approaches of these organisations during and after the protests. The report concludes that there may be reasons for hope as the protests seem to have created some expanded confidence and leadership among farm workers, even if they did not primarily challenge power on the farms; the question remains as to whether this historic uprising can lead to further transformation from below.

Although day laborers are highly visible, as they seek employment, in public street corners or storefronts, their life struggles, including their mental health and social service needs, remain largely unknown to local officials or service providers. This is one of the first studies to directly examine the risk and protective factors impacting Latino Day Laborers’ (LDLs) well-being and substance use and abuse. The study utilized a mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) design. Specifically, this study used risk and protective variables identified by LDLs in the initial qualitative phase of the study to quantitatively examine the impact on these factors on LDLs’ well-being and substance use and abuse. Based on a sample of 147 LDLs, the quantitative results indicate that risk factors for well-being include psychological distress, social isolation, and older age; while factors protective of well-being include higher levels of religiosity and sending remittances to family members. In addition, psychological distress was found to be a risk factor for substance abuse. A member checking focus group was conducted to contextualize and validate the quantitative findings with the lived experiences of LDLs. Implications for practice and policy are discussed. / text

The purpose of this study was to describe, explicate, and systematically analyze the culture care values, beliefs, and practices of migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors in context of their temporary living accommodations and work setting in two small towns in east central Indiana. The goal of this study was to generate knowledge regarding culture care values, beliefs, and practices of migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors. Such knowledge can be used by nurses to provide culturally congruent care which can influence migrant farm workers' health and well-being.The theoretical framework for the study was Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality. The qualitative ethnonursing research method was used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using both an ethnonursing inquiry guide and an ethno-demographic information guide developed by the researcher.Sixteen key informants and three general informants participated in the study. Informants were purposefully selected for knowledge of migrant farm life and willingness to share this knowledge with the researcher. Key informants were Mexican American migrant farm workers in east central Indiana for farm and tomato factory work from July through October, 2004. General informants were health and social service workers who provided care for the migrant farm workers. Three key informants were interviewed twice each. All other informants were interviewed once. Interviews took place in the informants' homes and at a local food pantry. Interviews were audio taped and transcribed verbatim.Four major themes were synthesized from the research data: (a) health promoting behaviors are recognized and valued by migrant farm workers but are influenced by economic and political/legal factors in the social structure; (b) traditional gender roles of migrant farm worker men and women influence health promoting behaviors; (c) professional caring is viewed by migrant farm workers as respect through the use of the Spanish language and acceptance of culture care values, beliefs, and practices; and (d) health promoting behavior of migrant farm workers is influenced both by traditional culture care values and beliefs and by knowledge acquired through diverse formal and informal education. Findings were discussed in relation to Leininger's three modes of culture care action for nurses: culture care preservation/maintenance, accommodation/negotiation, and repatterning/restructuring. / Department of Educational Studies

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