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Introduction

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This chapter provides the contextual background of the study. It explains the impact of China’s urbanisation and the internal mass migration movement on individual rural migrants and urban society. By doing so, it offers the rationale of the book and helps the reader to contextualise the empirical findings in the chapters that follow. It then explains the method and data, and limitations of the research are also discussed. Furthermore, it outlines the contents and organisation of the book, to inform the reader what and how information is presented to them. The chapter ends with a discussion on the intended research impact.

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Shen, A. (2018). Introduction. In: Internal Migration, Crime, and Punishment in Contemporary China. Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00674-7_1

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