African presence in former soviet spaces

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2002, Pages 497-524

  Fikes, Kesha ^a   Lemon, Alaina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Caucasus; Diaspora; Displacement; Race; USSR

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; AFRICAN IMMIGRANT; DIASPORA; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; RACE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CAUCASUS; EURASIA;

EID: 2742566033     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085420     Document Type: Article

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