Emotions, Positionalities and the Reproduction of Border Regimes: Multi-Sited Ethnography with Syrian Transnational Families

Miriam Stock

doi:10.33134/njmr.775

Emotions, Positionalities and the Reproduction of Border Regimes: Multi-Sited Ethnography with Syrian Transnational Families

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Volume 14 (2024): Issue 4

By: Miriam Stock

Open Access

|Dec 2024

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