Migration as development strategy? the new political economy of dispossession and inequality in the Americas

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-259

  Phillips, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Americas; Caribbean basin; Development; Inequality; Labor mobility; Migration; Transnational division of labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249222809     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290802402744     Document Type: Article

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