“My life is elsewhere”: social exclusion and rural migrants’ consumption of homeownership in contemporary China

Dialectical Anthropology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 405-422

  Zhan, Yang ^a,b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Consumption; Homeownership; Rural migrants; Space; Urban village

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948093725     PISSN: 03044092     EISSN: 15730786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-015-9401-6     Document Type: Article

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