Message from kluna

I am very interested in the effects of migration on children once they are left behind. In a Latin American seminar that I attended, we learned about the social emotional effects of parental migration. Some of the main issues that children experienced were a feeling of abandonment, drug abuse, poverty, etc. And when children were reunited with their parents, they often have difficulty overcoming the feelings of abandonment, because they lacked communication and connection with their parents while they were away. I didn’t know about the rural to urban migration in China, but I would imagine that they have similar end results. In an article published by the China Labour Bulletin, it seems like there are similar issues with these Chinese children. I wonder what the Chinese government is doing to address these issues, if anything?
Link: http://www.clb.org.hk/content/migrant-workers-and-their-children