Mobility, rootedness, and the Caribbean higgler: Production, consumption and transnational livelihoods

Work and Migration: Life and livelihoods in a globalizing world

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 61-81

  Freeman, Carla ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203166239     Document Type: Chapter

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