Women’s land activism and gendered citizenship in the urbanising Pearl River Delta

Urban Studies

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 602-617

  Po, Lanchih ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

agglomeration urbanisation; citizenship; gender; inequality; poverty exclusion

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CITIZENSHIP; DISPLACEMENT; EQUITY; POVERTY; STRATIFICATION; URBANIZATION; WOMENS STATUS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 85078227322     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098019890769     Document Type: Article

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