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The movement of Han Chinese into minority regions has been a long standing pattern in China. China's minorities, however, have only recently begun to move in significant numbers, motivated by economic, social, and political factors. This book looks at how current changes in China are affecting the minority populations. It gives special attention to border regions in the west of China. The contributors focus on how population shifts and the movement of China's minorities impact such issues as education, ethnic identity, the environment, local economy, labor, and regional development. They emphasize new dimensions in ethnic relations in China that have been introduced as a result of the spatial relocations. Selected Contents: Foreword, Dru C. GladneyI. Introduction1. Overview of Minority Migration, Robyn Iredale and Fei Guo2. Minority Movement and Education, Wang SuII. Inner Mongolia3. Contemporary Mongolian Population Distribution, Migration, Cultural Change, and Identity, Jirgal Burgin and Naran Bilik4. Ethnic Groups in Hohhot: Migration, Settlement, and Inter-group Exchanges, Wang JunminIII. Xinjiang5. Impacts of Migration to Xinjiang since the 1950s, Ren Qiang and Yuan Xin6. Population Distribution and Relations between Ethnic Groups in the Kashgar Region, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Ma Rong7. Uyghur Movement within Xinjiang and Its Ethnic Identity and Cultural Implications, Tsui Yen HuIV. Contexts and Patterns of Migration8. Ethnic Minority Labor Out-migrants from Guizhou Province and Its Impacts on Sending Areas, Zhang Jijiao9. Socio-economic Impacts of Uyghur Movement to Beijing, Caroline Hoy and Ren Qiang