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Migrant ‘Villages’ Within a City Ignite Debate

The New York Times reports on the growing debate over the policy of “sealed management,” in which villages inhabited by migrant workers in Beijing and elsewhere are fenced in and security is stepped up: Some residents welcome the walls and gates as a way of fighting crime, but critics have seized on the ghettolike villages as a jarring sign of the barriers facing rural migrants settlin