Protecting Mobile Livelihoods: Actors' Responses to the Emerging Health Challenges in Beijing and Tianjin

Modern China

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 446-478

  Zhang, Heather Xiaoquan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

access; China; health and well being; legal frameworks; livelihood struggles; mobility; rural urban migration; social policy

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; FIELDWORK; HEALTH CARE; LEGISLATION; MIGRANT WORKER; MOBILITY; OCCUPATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SAFETY; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIAL SECURITY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; TIANJIN;

EID: 84863190346     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: 15526836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0097700411435765     Document Type: Article

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