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Volume 21, 2014 - Issue 3: Aspiring migrants, local crises, and the imagination of futures 'away from home'
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Imagining a future in ‘bush’: migration aspirations at times of crisis in Anglophone Cameroon

Maybritt Jill AlpesMigration Law Section, Faculty of Law, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 259-274 | Received 20 Jun 2012, Published online: 30 Sep 2013

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