Rural migrant workers in urban China: Living a marginalised life

International Journal of Social Welfare

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-40

  Keung Wong, Daniel Fu ^a   Li, Chang Ying ^a   Song, He Xue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Marginalisation; Migration; Psychosocial impacts; Rural migrant workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845482918     PISSN: 13696866     EISSN: 14682397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2007.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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