The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge.

Chapters 3 and 4 examine the migrants' experiences of Shanghai's public education system, based on extended ethnography in one middle school in a migrant area of Pudong district. Ling concludes that most second-generation migrant youths in Shanghai are barred from further opportunities for social mobility, in particular by the exclusionary nature of urban education in China. In this fascinating ethnographic study of China's second-generation rural migrants, Minhua Ling follows the pathways of migrant youths through leaving school in Shanghai and entering the labor market. [Extracted from the article]

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