ABSTRACT
This chapter has shown that rural migrant children in upper primary school grades have already formed important constructs on social classes. This chapter primarily discusses how witnessing migrant parents’ disadvantaged manual-working status has made fifth- and sixth-grade migrant children aware of migrant workers’ daily experience of inequalities and developed their perceptions of the social structure. In these rural migrant children’s eyes, society is constructed with two main class categories: workers and bosses. In addition, these children have already developed an initial awareness of workers’ poor working conditions and inferior situations relative to their employers. However, they primarily attributed these inequalities to a lack of education, personal traits, and structural rural–urban/migrant–local differentiation.
