Feeling at home: Producing and consuming things in Karenni refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 742-755

  Dudley, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burma; Karenni; Material culture; Refugees; Senses; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

FORCED MIGRATION; MATERIAL CULTURE; REFUGEE;

KARENNI; KAYAH; MYANMAR;

EID: 80053478578     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.639     Document Type: Article

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