Wayward migration: On imagined futures and technological voids

Ethnos

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-109

  Vigh, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Globalization; Hope and prospects; Migration; Racialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650600740     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840902751220     Document Type: Article

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