Sharp edges, fuzzy categories and transborder networks: Managing and housing new arrivals in Hong Kong

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 218-233

  Smart, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Citizenship; Exclusion; Hong Kong; Housing; Transnational networks

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; HOUSING PROVISION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; POST-COLONIALISM; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

CHINA;

EID: 0037360398     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141987032000054402     Document Type: Article

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