Beyond grit: unsettling normative narratives of left-behind children’s resilience

Migration is often framed as a strategy for families to overcome economic hardship, yet it simultaneously generates its own adversities – most notably prolonged parent-child separation with profound effects on left-behind children’s well-being and schooling. This duality demands resilience not only from adults but also from left-behind children in transnational families. Recent scholarship increasingly recognises that resilience, particularly academic resilience, is not an innate trait, but a re