‘Let's keep our heads down and maybe the problem will go away’: Experiences of rural minority ethnic households in Scotland

The New Countryside?: Ethnicity, Nation and Exclusion in Contemporary Rural Britain

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 73-98

  de Lima, Philomena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

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