Socio-spatial scales as social boundaries? Or: How do migration studies profit from including 'space' in the sociology of social boundaries

Migration Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-288

  Amelina, Anna ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

categorical distinctions; methodological nationalism; scale approach; social boundaries; social inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866132662     PISSN: 17418984     EISSN: 17418992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33182/ml.v9i3.98     Document Type: Article

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