From refugee camps to gated communities: Biopolitics and the end of the city

Citizenship Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-106

  Diken, Bülent ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; REFUGEE; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN SOCIETY;

EID: 1642617696     PISSN: 13621025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1362102042000178373     Document Type: Article

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