A tale of Foxconn city: Urban village, migrant workers and alienated urbanism

Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 147-163

  Yang, Daniel You Ren ^a  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203796597     Document Type: Chapter

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