Showing posts by Isabelle Côté.
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Migratory Labor for Extractive Industries Creating “Sons of Soil” Conflict in China
›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.