Diaspora, cyberspace and political imagination: The Eritrean diaspora online

Global Networks

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-179

  Bernal, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CITIZENSHIP; CULTURAL PRODUCTION; CYBERSPACE; TRANSNATIONALISM;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL IDENTITY; DIASPORA;

EID: 33644623541     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00139.x     Document Type: Review

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