Race, biology and culture in contemporary Norway: Identity and belonging in adoption, donor gametes and immigration

Race, Ethnicity, and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 53-71

  Howell, Signe ^a   Melhuus, Marit ^a  

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