Remembering across the border: Postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria

American Ethnologist

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 750-767

  Parla, Ayse ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 76449108631     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01208.x     Document Type: Article

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