In China there is a growing
migration population. Many of these
migrants have traveled from the rural areas to find jobs in the city. One of the growing problems with the migrants
moving into the city is there are no schools available for their children. Dexin School is one of South China’s private
schools available to migrant children. Dexin
is a school that bars on the windows and a concrete courtyard that doubles as a
playground. The teachers are under qualified and the parents might earn as
little as two dollars a day.
China
is trying to become a modernized economy, but with millions of migrants moving
into the city, experts warn that this “could jeopardize the nation’s ability to
grow and develop a skilled workforce.”
The Chinese governments are “unwilling or unable to offer public
services like health care and education.”
Many nongovernmental organizations and individual citizens have set up
thousands of elementary schools for migrant children. With China not providing quality schools for
all students this could result in “millions of migrant children becoming
unemployable as adults. “
As
I read this article I was very disturbed because of the inequalities between
people born in the city and those who are born in the rural part of China. Migrant
children are born with an ascribe status with little mobility to achieve a
higher status. The article states that
many of these children will grow up to be unemployed adults. I believe that this is unjustified. This particular situation is very similar
with the situation of race in America.
Many minorities, which are under privileged and poor, cannot afford nor
given the same opportunities as white students, same with China. Many poor children are not given the same
opportunities that are given to those children, who are privilege, born in
urban parts. I think that this is insane
because both, migrant children and city children are Chinese people, but most
important they are human.
If
China is trying to modernize the country, how can they ignore people who are
the “structure or backbone” of the country?
These people work the hardest just to make sure that the people on top
are being taken care of yet no one is taking care of them. This situation is very familiar with the
caste system that Dr. Sills describe to the class. The migrants are like the
serfs supporting all those above them or in this case the rich. No one takes care of the serfs or the work
condition that the serfs work under. Yet
if it was not for the serfs holding the system “up” the whole system would
fall. I believe that China need to
address the issues instead of looking the other way. These are human being’s lives that are going unnoticed
and this is unacceptable and unjust.
Whether China like it or not, migrants are moving in the city because
their farm work is being depleted and the government needs to be held accountable
for finding solutions to the problems.
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