No place to call home

China's Migrant WorkersIN A narrow alleyway in Liguanzhuang village, residents idle away a hotafternoon near a stinking rubbish dump, worrying about when thebulldozers will come. To prepare for the Olympic Games next year,Beijing's authorities are removing such eyesores. Old villages surrounded by the expanding city are being demolished. With them goescheap housing, vital to the city's huge pool of migrant workers. Chinadoes not like to admit it has slums. But it does, and it will find itneeds them (The Economist, 7 June 2007).