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China Migrant Unrest Exposes Generation Faultline

Reuters revisits the city of Zengcheng, Guangdong, the scene of riots last month after a skirmish between a pregnant street vendor and a police officer. They find a generational shift among migrant workers, many of whom are young and not willing to tolerate mistreatment by authorities and bosses:Interviews with dozens of migrants in Dadun and other nearby factory neighborhoods revealed raw resent