Backed by papers: Undoing persons, histories, and return

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-190

  Yngvesson, Barbara ^a   Coutin, Susan Bibler ^b  

^a HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Deportation; El Salvador; Law; Return; Sweden; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746854575     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.2.177     Document Type: Article

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