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SOCIETY

In the Minds of Migrant Workers

A sociological study into the hopes and fears of one of China’s most vulnerable groups

Guo Yu is a sociology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park in the US. During a recent research project in China which focused on attitudes of migrant workers, Guo sought to explore a more nuanced look at their thoughts through an ethnographic approach and found that stereotypes failed to represent their complex attitudes.

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