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Using personal network, referral, snowballing, and “guerrilla interviewing,” the researcher recruited 13 migrant parents that represent 11 cities of 9 provinces and collected interview data between early January and late June of 2015 . Data sources include 10 face-to-face interviews, 3 telephone interviews, 6 follow-up interviews, and supplementary policy documents.  \nFindings: It finds that local public schools have fully implemented free compulsory education, but have not supported equal access, revealing an inconsistent and arbitrary policy enactment pattern. Although all the interviewees have worked and lived in Shanghai for an average of 10 years, only those that afford a real property, receive exceptions, or have personal connections can have children enrolled in public schools. Further, parents’ perceptions ofthe policy implementation vary across cases with most of them not demonstrating an awareness of education equality.  \nCorresponding author:  \nDongmei Li, School of Education, Edgewood College, 1000 Edgewood College Drive, Madison, WI 53711, USA.  \nEmail: [dongmeili0414@gmail.com](dongmeili0414@gmail.com)  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative  \nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ([https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)).  \nOriginality/Value: This study synthesizes stories shared by migrant parents and reports an interesting policy implementation pattern. It contributes to the field of migrant education study and confirms that top-down equity-minded reform is likely to encounter challenges.  \nKeywords  \nMigrant education, perceptions, policy implementation, qualitative method, Shanghai Date received: 22 January 2018; accepted: 18 February 2020  \nIntroduction  \nMigrant education in China has been the focus of the international literature (Qian & Walker, 2015) . Existing research largely investigates migrant children’s educational experiences within private migrant schools (Chen & Feng, 2013; China Labour Bulletin, 2009; Goodburn, 2009; Han, 2004; Human Rights in China, 2002; Tan, 2010; Wang & Holland, 2011) . A small number of studies examine the practice of migrant education policies in public schools (China Labour Bulletin, 2009; Ren & Yang, 2011; Zhu, 2001) and even fewer of them are empirically based studies (Wang, 2008; Xiao, 2011; Yiu, 2014) . Only a few studies examine the migrant education policies unfolding in Shanghai (Qian & Walker, 2015; Yiu, 2014) . More research effort needs to be focused on migrant education policies to disclose whether or not current migrant education policies have worked as expected in promoting education equality. The findings of this type of study can help local governments plan m","cbCaingbEEISgDQq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaingbEEISgDQq","pdf",250087,23,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the article?\",\"answer\":\"It explores how Shanghai’s suburban public schools implemented top-down equity-minded migrant policies for free compulsory education and equal access.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the qualitative study conducted?\",\"answer\":\"The study recruited 13 migrant parents via personal networks and snowball techniques and collected interview data in 2015, supported by supplementary policy documents.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the main findings about policy implementation?\",\"answer\":\"Free compulsory education was fully implemented, but equal access was not consistently supported, leading to inconsistent and arbitrary enactment patterns across schools.\"}]","Investigating Equity-Minded Migrant Education Policies in Shanghai From Migrant Parents’ Perspectives | PDF",1792091995,58]