Dead men working: Time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-318

  Ahmad, Ali Nobil ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human smuggling; Irregular migration; Precarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649113051     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017008089106     Document Type: Article

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