'For every border, there is also a bridge': Overturning borders in young aboriginal peoples' lives

Children's Geographies

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 429-436

  Swanson, Kate ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; Canada; Indigenous; Inequality; Revolution; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957901619     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2010.511008     Document Type: Article

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