From rural to urban: A geography of boundary crossing in Southeast Asia

TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-26

  Rigg, Jonathan ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

households; livelihoods; migration; mobility; rural change

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015553543     PISSN: 2051364X     EISSN: 20513658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/trn.2012.6     Document Type: Article

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