The book measures, dissects, and analyses the impacts of migration on children in China and recommends policies to address major problems from a variety of disciplinary perspectives employing different methodologies.

Kam Wing Chan is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. He is a leading expert on China's urbanization, migration, and the household registration (hukou) system.

Yuan Ren is Professor at Fudan University's School of Social Development and Public Policy, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Population Research.

Introduction: Children of migrants and China's future
1. China's precious children
2. Children of migrants in China in the 21st century: trends, living arrangements, age-gender structure, and geography
3. Leaving children behind: a win-win household strategy or a path to pauperization?
4. From left-behind children to young migrants: the intergenerational social reproduction of rural migrant labor in China
5. Demolition of Chengzhongcun and social mobility of Migrant youth: a case study in Beijing
6. Rural-urban divide and identity conflicts of migrant Muslim students in Northwest China
7. Rural-to-urban migration and adolescent delinquent behaviors: evidence from Hunan and Guangdong in China
8. The impacts of parental migration on children's subjective well-being in rural China: a double-edged sword