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Chun sat silently in the very back row of the classroom, her head tilted downward, her shoulders slumped, avoiding eye contact with me as if her life depended on it. At 16, she was the oldest in my sixth-grade class. One day, I asked Chun a question about the stories the children read and, predictably, she didn’t say a word. Instead, she looked down at her feet, grabbed her shirt tightly, and her ears, peeking through her hair, turned red.

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Yu, M. (2016). Introduction. In: The Politics, Practices, and Possibilities of Migrant Children Schools in Contemporary China. Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50900-0_1

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