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This chapter focuses on migrants in urban villages. The rural-to-urban migrants have been the secret of China’s economic miracle. The migrants contributed greatly to the economic development of Shenzhen city. In fact, it was they who actually built the city. Other than the factory dorms, the migrants reside within the urban villages—largely due to policy limitations and economic necessity. Since the 1980s, the urban villages of Shenzhen have been inevitably affected by the migrants in terms of both social and cultural influence.
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Wang, D.W.D. (2016). Migrant City and Migrant Villages. In: Urban Villages in the New China. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50426-5_4
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