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YOUNG PEOPLE LEAVING STATE CARE IN CHINA

Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44 (0)117 954 5940 e-mail

North American office: Policy Press c/oThe University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756

Policy Press 2017

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ISBN 978-1-4473-3669-3 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4473-3670-9 ePdf
ISBN 978-1-4473-3671-6 ePub
978-1-4473-3672-3 Mobi

The rights of Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

List of tables and figures

List of tables

List of figures

Glossary and abbreviations

All names used in the book are aliases unless the case is in the public media or the person agreed to be named.

Affordable housing

Government low-cost housing available to disadvantaged families to purchase for home-ownership.

Alternative care

Care for children away from their birth parents, including state care, kinship care and other informal care.

BNU

Beijing Normal University.

Carer

Informal carers, including family, kin and friends, caring for children in alternative care.

Children and young people with disabilities

The book uses person-first language consistent with the UNCRPD style, that is child first, disability second.

De facto adoption

Informal adoption or foster care families without registration of the relationship or the child.

DPF

Disabled Persons Federation.

Hukou

Resident card registration.

Inclusive education

The book refers to inclusive education as supported education within a mainstream classroom or school. It contrasts with special education in a segregated environment.

Informal carer

Unpaid carers and kinship carers (contrasted with paid support workers). It includes informal or de facto adoption and foster care families, where the child is often an unregistered citizen.

Institutional care

Residential care in institutions, approximately 50 500 children in each institution. See also state child welfare institution.

Kinship care

Informal alternative care within the extended family of the orphan.

Low rental housing

Government public housing.

MCA

Ministry of Civil Affairs. Provincial and local levels of civil affairs are referred to as a department or bureau.

MLS

Minimum living security social security for low-income households, dibao.

NGO

Non-governmental organization.

Orphans allowance

Basic living security allowance for orphans.

RMB

Chinese dollar (Yuan, renminbi), 10 RMB = , 1.1.

State care

Government alternative care of state wards, which is the responsibility of local city state child welfare institutions.

State child welfare institution

Local government organization responsible for state wards, including organizing adoption and usually providing institutional care, and sometimes also other forms of alternative care in the community, such as foster care.

State guardianship or state ward

Child without known birth family or extended family in the guardianship of the state.

UNCRC

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1990.

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