The Identity Construction Of City Of New Immigrants Children In Micro System Perspective

The traditional household registration (Hukou) system is directly connected with land and used as an administrative management. With the deepening of reform and opening up policy, the rapid development of agriculture and industry has made urban and household registration system ineffective and even become the regulatory obstacles hindering social healthy development.This thesis attempts to research the identity construction process of new immigrants children in micro-system perspective with field study methodology. At first, analytical framework has been sketched on the basis of theoretical and empirical literature review relevant with identity recognition. Then, the perception, experience and judgment of identity in new immigrants'interactions with others in different environments will be analyzed with the narratives of new immigrants children's personal accounts and the discourse analysis of the daily activities of new immigrants children in two micro-systems which refer to family and school (including peer group). In family system, the identity construction process of new immigrants children will be analyzed in four perspectives, namely, the family movement, the contrast of family dwellings, family daily activities and emergency(school selection strategy). In school system, the identity construction will be analyzed in three perspectives, namely, new immigrants children's feedback of school system, interactions between teachers and students and peers. At last, it draws the conclusion that the identity construction of new immigrants children derives from the generation of group boundary symbols and the identity consolidation and internalization on the basis of interaction between subjects and environment through oral narratives. Their personal experience and the imagination of future help shape the process of identity construction and re-construction through social memory and space-time conversion.