ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 has a sharp focus on community-based resilience building. It showcases the work of community schools that facilitates the resilience process of floating children. The chapter cross-analyses multiple data sources (interview data, online survey data, and social network data) and draws on social capital theory (Bourdieu, Coleman, and Burt) to debunk patterns and dynamics behind the social connectedness within the researched community schools. In the internal migration context of China where the socioeconomic basis for domestic social capital within migrant families is shaky, community schools provide an alternative pathway to the resilience of floating children. The community-based resilience work reported in this chapter has strong potential to counteract structural inequalities, recognises social diversity and inclusivity, and enables togetherness-of-differences.
