Home and away: Mental geographies of young migrant workers and their belonging to the family house in Northern Ghana

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-30

  Cassiman, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belonging; Ghana; Home; Kasena; Material culture; Migration

Indexed keywords

MATERIAL CULTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; RETURN MIGRATION; RURAL AREA; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SECOND HOME; YOUNG POPULATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UPPER EAST REGION; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 50549097267     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090601151210     Document Type: Article

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