“Bad students go to vocational schools!”: Education, social reproduction and migrant youth in urban China

China Journal

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-131

  Ling, Minhua ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; STUDENT; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; YOUNG POPULATION;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 85021331629     PISSN: 13249347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/679271     Document Type: Article

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