Unsettling connections: Transnational networks, development and African home associations

Global Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-161

  Mercer, Claire ^a   Page, Ben ^b   Evans, Martin ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Cameroon; Civil society; Development; Diaspora; Networks; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CAMEROON; CIVIL SOCIETY; DEVELOPMENT; DIASPORA; NETWORKS; TANZANIA;

SET THEORY;

CIVIL SOCIETY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; DIASPORA; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING ASSOCIATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 61849108184     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00248.x     Document Type: Article

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