Urbanisation's long shadows: Mariama Bǎ's So Long A Letter

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 723-740

  Abuk, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural migration; Literature and migration; Senegal; Urbanisation; Women migrants

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; URBANIZATION;

SENEGAL;

EID: 0142197729     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183032000123477     Document Type: Article

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