流动的童年:对农民工子女二十年后的回访研究

Childhood on the Move:Revisit Study on Migrant Children after Twenty-Year

现有文献大多强调农民工子女“身不由己”的童年生活,较少从儿童视角出发探讨农民工子女的童年经历与体验。本文通过对一批20世纪90年代末期进城流动的农民工子女在20年后的回访,分析农民工子女如何在家庭、学校与社区中度过童年。研究发现,儿童在看似“身不由己”的“留守/流动”身份变动过程中,积极探索自己的童年生活方式,一定程度上缓解乃至摆脱流动过程中所面临的困境。漂泊的童年经历对农民工子女心态具有重要影响,并作用于成年后的家庭亲子实践与城市流动决策。虽然20世纪晚期的社会变迁塑造了农民工子女的生命历程,但儿童在看似处处受制于社会结构的童年生活中也具有能动性的一面。

Most of the existing literature emphasizes the"involuntariness"of childhood life of migrant children,while rarely discusses the childhood experiences and experiences of migrant children from the perspective of the children.Through revisiting a group of children of migrant workers who moved to cities in the late 1990s,we analyzed how the children of migrant workers spent their childhood in their families,schools and communities.The study found that children actively explore their childhood lifestyle in the process of seemingly"involuntary""left-behind/mobility"status,and to some extent,alleviate and even overcome the difficulties faced in the process of mobility.The moving childhood experience has an important influence on the mentality of migrant workers'children,and plays a role in the adult parent-child practice and urban mobility decision-making.Although the social changes in the late 20th century shaped the life course of migrant workers'children,children also have an active role in their childhood life that seems to be subject to social structureeverywhere.