'Money of kurbet is money of blood': The making of a 'hero' of migration at the Greek-Albanian border

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1059-1078

  Papailias, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crime; Gender; Greek Albanian border; Historical representation; Migration; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; MIGRATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 0346734292     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183032000171366     Document Type: Article

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