Citizenship at war: Passports and nationality in the 2008 Russian-Georgian conflict

Anthropology Today

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 8-13

  Mühlfried, Florian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 77954210738     PISSN: 0268540X     EISSN: 14678322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2010.00721.x     Document Type: Article

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