Discrimination against Rural-to-Urban Migrants: The Role of the Hukou System in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Kuang, Lei ^a   Liu, Li ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; HUKOU SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; RURAL TO URBAN MIGRANT; SALARY; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY;

CHINA; HUMANS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84868339011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046932     Document Type: Article

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