Titanic tales of missing men: Reconfigurations of national identity and gendered presence in Dakar, Senegal

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 361-376

  Melly, Caroline M ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clandestine migration; Gender; Myth; Neoliberalism; Postcolonial nation; Presence; public.

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955499153     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01311.x     Document Type: Article

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