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  • Migratory Labor for Extractive Industries Creating “Sons of Soil” Conflict in China

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 13, 2015  //  By Isabelle Côté
    A mine worker looks at stacks of coal in an open-cast steam coal mine located in the Ordos mining district

    In May 2011, two weeks before I was scheduled to start research in the region, a Mongol herder named Mergen was hit by a mining truck while protecting his pastureland in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia. He was dragged 140 feet and killed. His death sparked a month of protests.

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