By concentrating on the topic of school enrolment policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in China, this book analyses the unequal power relations and structural inequalities that can appear in the context of education.

Hui Yu (PhD, IOE) is Associate Professor in the School of Education at South China Normal University, China. Dr Yu is an adjunct research fellow at South China Normal University (SCNU) Centre for Fundamental Education Governance and Innovation, and at Ministry of Education-SCNU Institute for Educational Law. His research interest is sociology of education with a focus on policy processes and social class equalities in the context of rural-to-urban migration in China.

1 Migrant children's school enrolment in urban China 2 Fluctuating development of school enrolment policy 3 Tracing educational policy trajectory with policy sociological and Bourdieusian resources 4 Intersection of multiple fields and social spaces framing policymaking 5 Cross-field effects: external influences on policy agenda 6 Discursive practices: inside the 'black box' of policy cycle 7 Intersectional logics: local diversities in policy enactment 8 Nature of policymaking and concerns for social justice 9 Being reflexive: policy sociology, Bourdieu and 'toolbox' approach