Transnationalism unbound: Detailing new subjects, registers and spatialities of cross-border lives

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 434-458

  Collins, Francis Leo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; GLOBALIZATION; MIGRATION; NATIONALISM;

EID: 59849116756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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