Globalisation and Singaporean transmigration: Re-imagining and negotiating national identity

Political Geography

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 563-589

  Kong, Lily ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Globalisation; National identity; Singapore; Transmigration; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; NATIONAL IDENTITY; TRANSMIGRATION;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0032790077     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-6298(99)00002-5     Document Type: Article

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