Migrant identity on display: The xhiro in Rrëshen

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 575-588

  Hemming, Andreas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albanian migration; Anthropology; Status paradox of migration; Xhiro

Indexed keywords

EID: 75349094907     PISSN: 14683857     EISSN: 17439639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14683850903315078     Document Type: Article

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