Introduction: A processual approach to informalization

Current Sociology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 151-166

  Boudreau, Julie Anne ^a   Davis, Diane E ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison; Global North and South; informality; modernization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011659720     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392116657286     Document Type: Editorial

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