ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces rural migrant children’s future expectations and explores their perceptions of available and feasible options in seeking a way out of their doomed fate of reproducing their parents’ rural migrant work in the future. This chapter argues that rural migrant children actively interpreted the adversities confronting their parents and fellow migrant workers. However, rather than questioning the employer’s responsibility for migrant workers’ social inequalities, these children perceived workers’ educational failure as the primary reason. Such attribution features, belief in individual efforts and self-blame for failure, led many migrant children to assert that they would reject collective action if they eventually become the next generation of manual workers, hoping that education could change their destiny.
