Gender relations and cross-border small trading in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlands

European Urban and Regional Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-108

  Cassidy, Kathryn L ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borders; Europe; gender; informal economy; post socialism

Indexed keywords

CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EUROPEAN UNION; GENDER RELATIONS; HEGEMONY; SOCIALISM; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ROMANIA; UKRAINE;

EID: 84872046110     PISSN: 09697764     EISSN: 14617145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969776412463374     Document Type: Article

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