Cyprus and its Places of Desire: Cultures of Displacement among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees

Cyprus and its Places of Desire: Cultures of Displacement among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-230

  Dikomitis, Lisa ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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