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
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50% 50%
40% 40%
30% 30%
20% 20%
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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
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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
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Figure 24: Reasons for migrant workers to return home
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