Rural property in an age of transnational migration: Ethnic divisions in Southeastern Albania

Anthropologica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-107

  Stahl, Johannes ^a   Sikor, Thomas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albania; Ethnicity; Land; Property; Southeastern europe; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649208513     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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