Migrant workers often can't register in the cities where they work, and subsequently can't qualify for social services such as public education or social security.
"People coming here to work in factories don't have the time or the money for shopping or the rollercoaster, " said a migrant worker in his 20s, surnamed Xiao, who works at the mall.
He didn't have to travel far from his home in Minneapolis to find a camp where Hispanic women, migrant workers in food-processing plants, have temporary quarters.