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Migrant Workers (The Village ('Left-behind children' - children…

- - - - Chemicals used by factories that supply Foxconn
- - - - Struggle to bring boyfriends home, esp if from different region
- - - - Education seen as the way out for children - but can't access it
- - - - Overcrowding
        
        Pressure on resources
      - People unable to afford rent
      - Development of migrant worker suburbs
    - - People paid to move their houses - if they don't move, developments happen around them, resulting in 'nail houses'
        
        International attention
      - Illegal land grabs and corruption
        
        "Hungry cities"
      - 2007 landmark law to prevent illegal seizures and give more rights
        
        Not always successful, families still threatened with violence etc
        
        Wifes still don't have property rights
  - - - Can rise through ranks rapidly by taking a simple IT course
- - - - Often easier to exploit
- - - - Still controlled
    - - Shenzhen first SEZ