Pathos of love in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica: Emotion, travel and migration

Mobilities

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 389-405

  Frohlick, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotions; Heterosexuality; Migration; Subjectivity; Tourists; Transnational

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; MIGRATION; MOBILITY; SEXUALITY; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; WOMENS STATUS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 70350233288     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195524     Document Type: Article

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