摘要 : This special issue explores the shifting landscape of global middle-class migration within and from East Asia by taking therelationship between mobility, parenting ideals and changing educational desires as its focus. Contribution... 展开 This special issue explores the shifting landscape of global middle-class migration within and from East Asia by taking therelationship between mobility, parenting ideals and changing educational desires as its focus. Contributions explore howEast Asian middle-class families balance the emergent emphasis on their children’s well-being with the demands of globalcompetitiveness as these often-antagonistic desires are projected onto old and newmigration destinations against the backgroundof global geopolitical and economic power shifts. Instead of reifying the simplistic binary of hierarchical, achievement-orientedEast Asian ‘Confucian educational norms’ versus democratic, well-being-focussed Western ideals, the contributions offer anuanced understanding of how these educational ideals coexist within the social, cultural, political and economic contexts offamilies. By carefully assessing the dialectically entwined intimate experiences of parents and children, the articles collected hereset out to broaden our understanding of howmiddle-class families in Singapore, SouthKorea, Japan and China attempt to negotiatethe tension between prioritizing children’s happiness andmaintaining global competitiveness result in a variety of strategies frommigrating to less obvious international destinations to crafting domestic alternatives. Taken together, the articles reveal consistentpatterns of middle-class migration and child-rearing decisions that contest and reshape conventional notions of success, attestingto a shift in global middle-class migration trends and to the importance of child-rearing in migratory decisions. 收起