'I have too much baggage': The impacts of legal status on the social worlds of irregular migrants

Social Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-65

  Sigona, Nando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immigration regimes; Irregular migration; Migrants' everyday lives; Social networks; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856456263     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2011.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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