Together but Unequal: Citizenship Rights for Migrants and Locals in Urban China

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 781-805

  Wu, Weiping ^a   Wang, Guixin ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Citizenship rights; Housing; Inequality; Migration; Social security; Urban China

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; HOUSING CONDITIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT; MIGRATION; SOCIAL SECURITY; URBAN HOUSING;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84909635321     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087413518172     Document Type: Article

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