Migrant Children School

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Neighboring factories and worker's dormitories, Dongzhu (East Pearl) is a private -- or Minban -- elementary school catering to migrant workers' children in Dongguan, Guangdong.

Hit by the global recession, Dongguan, a major manufacture town in southern China, has seen many laid-off migrant workers returned to their home villages. Other migrant parents, even though foreshadowed by pay cuts or unemployment, preferred to stay so their kids could sustain their education in a better...
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