Rural-to-urban migrant children's behaviors and adaptation within migration social contexts in China

Global Perspectives on Well-Being in Immigrant Families

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 75-94

  Chen, Bin Bin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84961177625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9129-3_5     Document Type: Chapter

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