Jin, Lei; Wen, Ming; Fan, Jessie X.; Wang, Guixin - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 2, pp. 288-296
During the past three decades, an estimated 200 million rural residents have moved to urban centers in China. They are “sojourners” in the cities and maintain close ties with their home communities, which we term trans-local ties. This paper examines the relationship between migrants' social...