ABSTRACT
Migration and educational inequality of migrant children in China Globalisation, the rise of the market economy and urbanisation have caused continuous intra-country migration in China, which is different from the transnational migration in most Western countries. Whilst intra-country migration does not cross national borders, it does cross what we call the ‘rural-urban boundary’, which to a great extent represents a dual structure or social divide in China. Through this example, rural-urban migration in China could broaden our transnational perspectives by redefi ning ‘borders’: not only national borders but more essentially structural borders or boundaries.
