Education, migration and family relations between China and the UK : the transnational one-child generation

'Migration, Education and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation' provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families, examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents wh...

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Main Author Tu, Mengwei (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787146723
9781787430051
DOI10.1108/9781787146723
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages)

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