"Mad dogs and transnational migrants?"Bajan-brit second-generation migrants and accusations of madness

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 586-600

  Potter, Robert B ^a   Phillips, Joan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barbados; Madness; Othering; Second generation migrants; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; NATIONALISM; RETURN MIGRATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33748282940     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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