Migrant workers are the crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and ide
Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the backbone
The recent unprecedented scale of Chinese migration has had far-reaching consequences. Within China, many villages have been drained of their young and most abl
As China moves from a society controlling all aspects of life, including population movement, to something nearer a market economy, migration has become a live
