Jiaxin Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research focuses on inequality and social justice issues, particularly on educational inequalities and social mobility, rural–urban migration, and class reproduction.

• 1: Introduction 2: Living with Educational Inequalities in Childhood 3: The Worker-Boss-Divide: Society in Rural Migrant Children’s Eyes 4: Compliance or Resistance: Rural Migrant Children’s Seeking Their Alternative Way Out 5: The Meritocratic Schooling Process in Urban China 6: Possibilities and Challenges of Fostering Critical Consciousness in the Schooling Process 7: Revisiting Studies of Rural Migrant Children from the Class Perspective 8: From Awareness to Critical Consciousness: What is the Missing Link?

Jiaxin Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research focuses on inequality and social justice issues, particularly on educational inequalities and social mobility, rural–urban migration, and class reproduction.

• 1: Introduction 2: Living with Educational Inequalities in Childhood 3: The Worker-Boss-Divide: Society in Rural Migrant Children’s Eyes 4: Compliance or Resistance: Rural Migrant Children’s Seeking Their Alternative Way Out 5: The Meritocratic Schooling Process in Urban China 6: Possibilities and Challenges of Fostering Critical Consciousness in the Schooling Process 7: Revisiting Studies of Rural Migrant Children from the Class Perspective 8: From Awareness to Critical Consciousness: What is the Missing Link?

Jiaxin Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research focuses on inequality and social justice issues, particularly on educational inequalities and social mobility, rural–urban migration, and class reproduction.

• 1: Introduction 2: Living with Educational Inequalities in Childhood 3: The Worker-Boss-Divide: Society in Rural Migrant Children’s Eyes 4: Compliance or Resistance: Rural Migrant Children’s Seeking Their Alternative Way Out 5: The Meritocratic Schooling Process in Urban China 6: Possibilities and Challenges of Fostering Critical Consciousness in the Schooling Process 7: Revisiting Studies of Rural Migrant Children from the Class Perspective 8: From Awareness to Critical Consciousness: What is the Missing Link?