Questioning the 'field in motion': Emerging concepts, research practices and the geographical imagination in Asian migration studies

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-131

  Lin, Weiqiang ^a   Yeoh, Brenda S A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; MIGRATION;

ASIA;

EID: 78651255406     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474010385986     Document Type: Article

References (17)

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3. D. Bryceson and U. Vuorela (eds) The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks (Oxford: Berg, 2002).
4. B.S.A. Yeoh, 'Cosmopolitanism and its Exclusions in Singapore', Urban Studies, 41, 2004, pp. 2431-45, for a politically subtle analysis.
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13. P. Crang, C. Dwyer and P. Jackson, 'Transnationalism and the Spaces of Commodity Culture', p. 439.
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