Social networks and women's rural-urban migration in contemporary China

Labour, Capital and Society

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 104-125

  Zhang, Nana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MIGRATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; VILLAGE; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 38049026768     PISSN: 07061706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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