Home and away: Chinese migrant workers between two worlds

Sociological Review

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-44

  Myerson, Rebecca ^a   Hou, Yubo ^a   Tang, Huizhen ^a   Cheng, Ying ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Ye, Zhuxuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 77956345808     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2009.01878.x     Document Type: Article

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