They are also Parents They Are Also Parents - A Study on Migrant Workers | Page 40

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 Figure 22: Issues considered in migrant workers’ choice of employment Figure 23: Issues considered in migrant workers’ choice of employment 60% 60% 50% 50% 40% 40% 30% 30% 20% 20% 10% 10% 0% Highter salary Better welfare Stability of income Being more helpful in educating children Better support Better support of employees' Legitimacy More flexible of employees' individual and justice in family hours career managenment development development 0% Better Better Legitimacy surpport of surpport of and justice in employees' employees' individual family managment career development development Highter salary Better welfare Stability of income Being more helpful in educating children PRD area: migrant parents having children left in hometown 54% 38% 58% 26% 23% 21% 20% 22% More flexible hours Worker with children 47% 38% 56% 30% 30% 17% 18% 19% PRDarea: migrant parents keeping children with them 330% 37% 59% 39% 38% 12% 13% 16% Worker without children 50% 34% 56% 6% 13% 13% 56% 32% PRD area: migrant parents with no children 54% 36% 55% 5% 11% 9% 57% 29% Chongqing area: migrant parents having children left in hometown 45% 42% 51% 28% 37% 14% 17% 17% Chongqing area: migrant parents keeping children with them 46% 38% 53% 27% 31% 14% 28% 16% Chongqing area: migrant parents with no children 42% 31% 59% 9% 16% 21% 56% 36% hometowns) to provide care for their children. 4.2 The impact of parenthood on work stability minor reasons such as birthdays or neighbors’ wedding, which forces you Parents of migrant children tend to make reliable workers due to stability of to put people on overtime if an urgent order comes up. But I still think the their family lives. Interviews of factory managers also confirmed that these positives [of being close to home] outweigh the negatives”. parents are usually more reliable than other workers. often (Figure 24), usually due to parenting and family related reasons. Main reason for migrant workers to return Migrant parents Migrant parents Young migrant home with left-behind having children workers children with them Just over half of migrant workers in the PRD go home once a year, with See family on major holidays 75% 70% 79% parents of migrant-children going least frequently. In Chongqing workers tend Parents’ sickness 45% 37% 26% to go home more often, with roughly 80% visiting home at least once a year, Weddings and funerals of family members 34% 39% 35% and often for less pressing reasons. Schooling difficulties linked to household registration 24% 15% 1% “Some 90% of our migrant workers come from nearby areas in Chongqing Children’s education 17% 6% 0% and Sichuan Province”, says one factory manager. “It’s really easy for them Requests from family members to return 30% 29% 37% to go home; they don’t have to wait for the mass-migration around Spring Processing documentation tied to household registration 27% 41% 30% On the other hand, parents of left-behind children, might ask for leave more Festival. But the challenge with this is stopping them from going back for 38 Figure 24: Reasons for migrant workers to return home 39