Housing of Urban Migrants in India and China

Environment and Urbanization Asia

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-163

  Mahadevia, Darshini ^a   Liu, Zhiyan ^b   Yuan, Xiuming ^b  

^a CEPT University   (India)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; housing; India; Urban migrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011002383     PISSN: 09754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097542531200300108     Document Type: Article

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