Parental Migration and Children's Exposure to Victimization in China

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This study aims to investigate the association between parental migration and children&s;s exposure to different types of victimization in China. Using the stratified multiple-stage sampling method, we drew a probability sample of 2,498 middle school students from Guizhou Province, China. Findings reveal an alarmingly high percentage of students (85%) who have experienced at least one type of victimization. Moreover, the prevalence of victimization among left-behind children was consistently higher than that for children living with both nonmigrant parents across various types of victimization. Specifically, bivariate analyses show that the associations between parental migration and global victimization, conventional crime victimization, peer and sibling victimization, sexual victimization, and witnessing and indirect victimization were statistically significant. As one of the first studies that comprehensively assess a variety of forms of victimization and compare the prevalence of these forms of victimization between left-behind children and non-left-behind children in China, this study highlights the unintended negative effects of parental migration on children&s;s development and the urgent need for the state and local governments to develop and implement policies to assist this socially and economically marginalized group of people.

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