Exploring Minority Students Difficulties: A Case Study in a Chinese Charity School

Abstract

With the urbanization and industrialization, the population of migrant minority people is constantly increasing. In fact, there are 1.12million migrant minority children in China today, but they do not receive enough publicity. This qualitative research adopts interviews and thematic analysis to explore further to the current situation of migrant minority children in the full-care charity organization in Beijing, China. The researcher conducted interviews and follow-up interviews with ten migrant minority students from Yi ethnical minority group aged between ten years old to seventeen years old, and finally employs the transcriptions of two children and two teachers. The research concludes that these students encounter obstacles in bilingual language learning, lack sufficient parental involvement, and harbor inner conflicts of identities. Based on these discoveries, the researcher attempts to raise possible solutions in terms of policies and business to address these problems.