Together apart: Migration, integration and spatialised identities in South African border villages

Geoforum

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 561-572

  Polzer Ngwato, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Identity; Integration; Refugee; South Africa; Space

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; IDEOLOGY; MIGRATION; REFUGEE; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84858150682     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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