International Migration: Virtue or Vice? Perspectives from Cameroon

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-258

  Pelican, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Imaginaries; International Policies; Migration; National Politics

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; MARGINALIZATION; MOBILITY; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION;

CAMEROON;

EID: 84872390699     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: 14699451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.723256     Document Type: Article

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