By Mehmet Enes Beşer China’s economic rebound since the pandemic has been patchy, paradoxical, and sometimes misleading. While macroeconomic metrics—exports, manufacturing production, and state-led infrastructure investment—blink flashes of strength, the foundation of the rebound remains weak. Maybe nowhere is that weakness more evident than in the country’s treatment of its 300 million migrant workers. These workers, who have driven China’s ...