A place and space for a critical geography of precarity?

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 412-433

  Waite, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; MIGRANT WORKER; RISK;

EID: 59849104352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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