Are seafarers migrants? - Situating seafarers in the framework of mobility and transnationalism

New Zealand Geographer

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-43

  Borovnik, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MIGRATION; MARITIME TRANSPORTATION; MIGRATION; MOBILITY; OCCUPATION; SHIPPING;

EID: 13244269845     PISSN: 00288144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2004.tb01703.x     Document Type: Article

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