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CCR CSR | A Study on Migrant Workers with Left-behind Children in China | August 2013
CCR CSR | A Study on Migrant Workers with Left-behind Children in China | August 2013
quality of education received and safe environment for the children are among
Figure 19: Reasons why migrant workers remain in the city (multiple choice)
90%
the most important factors considered in evaluating the workplace.
80%
Figure 18: Reasons migrant workers leave their employment (multiple choice)
70%
Reason for resignation
Migrant parents with Migrant parents with
left-behind children
children
60%
50%
Not enough holidays to be reunited with children 37% 12% To be closer to home so that I can educate
children 53% 38% There was no one to look after children 52% 43% 20%
My child had a problem at school or with his/her 57%
health 40% 10%
My wages were too low to pay for children’s
needs 35% 38% Children cannot attend school where I work 18% 37% Migrant workers with
children
The quality of education where I work is poor 7% 17% Young workers with
no children
Social environment in the area where I work is
poor 11% 23% Company had no policy regarding pregnant
women, so it was unsuitable for me to continue
to work there 4% 5%
40%
30%
0%
Worker retention is an important factor in the rising labor cost. While
companies hope for a stable workforce, the experience and hardship of
Stronger sense of
worth
72% 74% 22% 12%
84% 77% 32% 17%
50%
40%
well-being of parents has also a strong impact on the development of left- 20%
behind and migrant children. These children will one day become employees 10%
0%
society at large, the current lack of support for migrant workers and their
children is a significant social issue.
The strained relationships of workers with their children were cause of a range
The way of life in the
city is better
60%
30%
3.3 Consequences of work on parenthood
The education in
school is better
Figure 20: Reasons why migrant workers decide to return home (multiple choice)
migrant labor can have an influence on the workers' decision to resign. The
themselves, and whether considering the development of business or of
There are more
opportunities in the city,
prospects for the future
are better
Difficul
I have
ties with
no skills, my child
there's no getting into
guarantee school/
of a job
college
Whether
I/we have
you like it or
I/we
Older family Limitati ones
To give
The cost member/s placed on
The cost of
been
prefer the not, you've
my child
I/we can't Opportunities
of living in are getting us by the
education
discriminated environment got to return
back at
a more
afford to
against in the and the way
to your
the city is too old and househ old
on in the
home are
stable
need to be registration buy a flat
city, I/we can't of life back at roots at
high
city is high
increasing
looked after
childhood
system
fit in here
some point
in here
Parents of left-
behind children 32% 26% 23% 21% 27% 54% 18% 38% 23% 4% 29% 24%
Parents of
migrant children 27% 33% 24% 10% 26% 35% 26% 48% 17% 2% 25% 14%
Young migrant
workers 13% 25% 19% 30% 18% 39% 11% 22% 24% 1% 52% 23%
of powerful emotions with 73% of respondents often feeling “guilty,” 57%
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