Wearing Illkarash: Narratives of image, identity and change among maasai labour migrants in Tanzania

Development and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 275-298

  May, Ann ^a   Ikayo, Francis Ndipapa Ole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NONE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; LABOR MIGRATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 34247620687     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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