The role of questions about migration in UK censuses: A simple matter of counting, or a means of exerting power?

Geoforum

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 615-623

  Duke Williams, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Census; Ethnicity; Immigrants; Migration; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MIGRATION; POPULATION GROWTH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960923635     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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