UW News
Kam Wing Chan
August 14, 2013
UW geographer devises a way for China to resolve its ‘immigration’ dilemma
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University of Washington geographer Kam Wing Chan is in China this week, explaining how that country can dismantle its 55-year-old system that limits rural laborers from moving to and settling in cities and qualifying for basic social benefits.