Preface -- Acknowledgement -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Urbanisation and Migration: Histories, Patterns, and Challenges -- Background: China in a Snapshot -- A Penetrating Overview of Urbanisation in China -- Household Registration System in China and the Institutionalised Class Distinction -- A Synoptic Review of Migration -- Chapter Summary: Framing Floating and Left-Behind Children Together -- The Wellbeing of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children: Conceptual Foundation and Empirical Knowledge -- Revisiting the Notion of 'Rurality' -- Conceptualising Wellbeing -- The Wellbeing of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children -- Chapter Summary: Time to Shift from the Medical Deficit Model -- Coming into an Inheritance: Intergenerational Social Reproduction through Class-Based Pedagogies -- Different Roots and Routes -- Social Reproduction through the Classed Pedagogy at Home and in School -- Empirical Coda: Some Quantitative Evidence on Social Reproduction -- Chapter Summary: Challenging the Determinism Claim -- Rural Dispositions of Floating Children in Urban Fields: Accent, Deportment, and Bodily Hexis -- Research Sites and Research Participants -- Rural Accent and Deportment of Floating Children -- Bodily Hexis: A Set of Durable and Transposable Rural Dispositions -- The Modification of Rural Dispositions and the Counter-Training of Habitus -- Rural Habitus: Its Marginalisation and Misrecognition -- The Shifting of Field Structures and the Recognition of Rural Habitus -- Empirical Coda: What Do We See in the Larger Picture? -- Chapter Summary: Enabling the Nurture Instead of Reshaping the Nature -- Living with Kin Caregivers: Special Needs of Children Left Behind -- Rearing a Child: Traditions in Diversity -- Research Site and Participants -- Informal Alternative Care by Kin Caregivers: Why Did They Step in? -- The Needs Model of Children Left Behind in Rural China -- Children Left Behind: How are They Seen as Different? -- Multiple Figures: Their Roles in Addressing the Needs of Children Left Behind -- Chapter Summary: Restating the Needs of Children Left Behind -- Education and Personal Development of Children Left Behind -- Educational Needs of Children Left Behind -- Go beyond Education: Children's Personal Development -- Education and Personal Development: What Do They Mean for Rural Children Left Behind? -- Chapter Summary: Education as a Core Need -- Floating Children and Left-Behind Children as Resilient Agents: A Strength-Based Pathway to Wellbeing -- Revisiting the Notion of Resilience -- Disadvantaged Children, Tenacious Creatures -- Chapter Summary: An Ecological Approach to Resilience Building -- Conclusion: A Call for System-Level Change -- A Recapitulation of What We Have Learned so Far -- Implications for Policy and Practice -- Scholarly Contribution: Rethinking the Deficits through a Strength-Based Perspective -- Final Remarks -- Appendices -- References -- Index.