Less than human? Diaspora, disease and the question of citizenship

International Migration

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3-26

  Harper, Ian ^a   Raman, Parvathi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; DIASPORA; DISEASE SPREAD; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; PERCEPTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 55949102959     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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