Bodies that (don't) matter: Desire, eroticism and melancholia in Pakistani labour migration

Mobilities

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-327

  Ahmad, Ali Nobil ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Desire; Eroticism; Gender; Melancholia; Pakistani labour migrants; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; MATERIAL CULTURE; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70350215603     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195359     Document Type: Article

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