ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 summarises the book. It succinctly revisits the knowledge built and lessons learnt throughout the previous chapters. The chapter concludes the book with implications for scholars, parents, school professionals, community workers, and policy makers in terms of building resilience of floating children and left-behind children in particular and, potentially, that of traditionally disadvantaged children in general. The chapter also raises questions emerging from the continuously morphing social experiences of floating children and left-behind children. The chapter, then, works through Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical-methodological-analytical tool of ‘participant objectivation’. It draws on the tool to ponder over sociological reflexivity embedded in this book project. The chapter concludes the book by restating the necessity and potential of a sociology of resilience to grapple with current and emergent conundrums behind the floating and left-behind phenomena. It calls for further development in sociology of resilience to work with structurally disadvantaged children in more meaningful ways.
