Navigating uncertainty: Observations from the Congo-Rwanda border

Subverting Borders: Doing Research on Smuggling and Small-Scale Trade

Volumn 9783531932736, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-106

  Doevenspeck, Martin ^a   Mwanabiningo, Nene Morisho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-93273-6_5     Document Type: Chapter

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