Geographies of eviction, expulsion and marginalization: Stories and coping capacities of the Veddhas, Sri Lanka

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 102-109

  Lund, Ragnhild ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Eviction; Expulsion; Indigenous population; Marginalization

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; FORCED MIGRATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARGINALIZATION;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0033770867     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: 15025292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002919500423708     Document Type: Article

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