Materialising Care across Borders: Sent Things and Family Ties between Sweden and Ukraine
By: Lyudmyla Khrenova and Kathy Burrell
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.399 | Journal eISSN: 1799-649X
Language: English
Page range: 250 - 264
Submitted on: Sep 29, 2020
Accepted on: Apr 15, 2021
Published on: Sep 3, 2021
Published by: Helsinki University Press
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