Constituting citizenship through the emotions: Singaporean transmigrants in London

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 788-804

  Ho, Elaine Lynn Ee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotional citizenship; London; Politics of belonging; Singapore; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; POLITICS; SENSE OF PLACE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69949177539     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045600903102857     Document Type: Article

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