Rethinking Migration in the Context of Precarity: The Case of Turkey

Critical Sociology

Volumn 42, Issue 7-8, 2016, Pages 975-987

  Şenses, Nazlı ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

irregular migrants; migration; precarity; Syrian migrants; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992533426     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920515606503     Document Type: Article

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