ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a brief introduction to the research background and context. It starts with reviewing the changing landscape of migration and schooling in terms of the nature of migrant children. It then introduces an unchanged institutional barrier of migrant children’s state school enrolment in compulsory and post-compulsory education stages – that is, household registration (hukou). It also reviews the development of policy regulating migrant children’s schooling. This chapter then reviews varied forms of schooling for migrant children, including (migrant majority) state school, quasi-state school, and unlicensed informal private (UIP) school. It also summarises the qualitative research approach and methods used in this study.
