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Mobility, Moralities and Motherhood: Navigating the Contingencies of Cape Verdean Lives

Lisa Åkesson Department of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jørgen Carling Peace Research Institute Oslo
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Heike Drotbohm Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Freiburg, and is currently fellow at the International Research Centre ‘Work and the Human Lifecyle in Global History’ at Humboldt University, Berlin
Pages 237-260 | Published online: 13 Jan 2012

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