Patterns of translocality: Migration, livelihoods and identities in Northwest Namibia

Sociologus

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-161

  Greiner, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.3790/soc.60.2.131     Document Type: Article

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