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Language: en
Pages: 221
Pages: 221
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary China Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban
Language: en
Pages: 185
Pages: 185
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-24 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Routledge
Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fas
Language: en
Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Through the lens of a Swedish industrial city, Landskrona, Urban Lives looks at economic and demographic change at the micro level to understand the societal tr
Language: en
Pages: 219
Pages: 219
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-01 - Publisher: BRILL
Based on the author’s own six years’ fieldwork, this book looks at critical features of China’s current social change, recounting how, against the odds, a