Judging ‘Close Family Relations’ in Irregular Migration: The Production of Legal, National and Familial Orders in Finnish Courts

Taina Cooke

doi:10.33134/njmr.380

Judging ‘Close Family Relations’ in Irregular Migration: The Production of Legal, National and Familial Orders in Finnish Courts

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Volume 12 (2022): Issue 2

By: Taina Cooke

Open Access

|Jun 2022

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