Toward a critical phenomenology of "illegality": State power, criminalization, and abjectivity among undocumented migrant workers in Tel Aviv, Israel

International Migration

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 8-38

  Willen, Sarah S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; GHANA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TEL AVIV; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34547129100     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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