Brokerage in cross-border mobility: Social mechanisms and the (re)production of social inequalities

Social Inclusion

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 38-52

  Faist, Thomas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brokerage; Inequality; Migration; Social mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956906021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21832803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17645/si.v2i4.29     Document Type: Article

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