Economic globalization from below: Transnational refugee trade networks in Nairobi

Cities in Contemporary Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 125-147

  Campbell, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230603349     Document Type: Chapter

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