Marketwatch has a story on migrant living in China, profiling a family that has migrated from Anwei, a rural province, to Beijing to find temporary labor.
Since the beginning of time, people have moved to where there is work. Wu Jia-Lan (I think) and her husband come to Beijing to work. She does domestic work, and her husband works in construction related to the Genocide Olympics. Under Chinese law, they can't send their son to public school in Beijing, so he stayed home for some time, and they saw him only once a year. However, the Wus eventually brought him over to Beijing.
Money is very tight. They may have to send him back, especially when the Genocide Olympics ends, and the construction jobs dry up.
Multiple movements and family separation aren't very helpful for children trying to make it in school. On a side note, migration is a factor in HIV transmission in some parts of Africa; migrant male laborers separated from their wives will often seek prostitutes.
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