"Im an imaginary figure": Unravelling the mobility and marginalisation of Scottish Gypsy Travellers

Geoforum

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 919-929

  Shubin, Sergei ^a   Swanson, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Exclusion; Gypsy Travellers; Mobility; Power; Scotland

Indexed keywords

GYPSY PEOPLE; HETEROGENEITY; MARGINALIZATION; MOBILITY; NOMADIC PEOPLE; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL POLICY;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77957367952     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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