Contagion and its Guises: Inequalities and disease among Tibetan exiles in India

International Migration

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 55-70

  Prost, Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIASPORA; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; POPULATION MIGRATION; REFUGEE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ASIA; DHARAMSALA; EURASIA; HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 55949119576     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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