Displaced Utopia: on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau

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Displaced Utopia : on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau. / Vigh, Henrik Erdman.

In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2018, p. 192-209.

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Vigh, HE 2018, 'Displaced Utopia: on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau', Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 192-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2017.1400274

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Vigh, H. E. (2018). Displaced Utopia: on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau. Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power, 25(2), 192-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2017.1400274

Vancouver

Vigh HE. Displaced Utopia: on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau. Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 2018;25(2):192-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2017.1400274

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Vigh, Henrik Erdman. / Displaced Utopia : on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau. In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 2018 ; Vol. 25, No. 2. pp. 192-209.

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