Racing from the bottom in South Korea? The Nexus between civil society and transnational migrants

Asian Survey

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-442

  Lim, Timothy C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; GLOBALIZATION; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 0041530098     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2003.43.3.423     Document Type: Article

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