Urban migration and cross-border networks: A deconstruction of the Akha identity in Chiang Mai

Southeast Asian Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 197-223

  Toyota, Mika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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