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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 45, 2019 - Issue 14: Special Issue 1: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through the Gender, Migration and Development Nexus; Special Issue 2: The Making and Unmaking of Precarious, Ideal Subjects – Migration Brokerage in the Global South
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Special Issue: The making and unmaking of precarious, ideal subjects – migration brokerage in the Global South

Please, thank you and sorry – brokering migration and constructing identities for domestic work in Ghana

Mariama AwumbilaCentre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, GhanaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Priya DeshingkarDepartment of Geography, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5138-4612
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Leander KandiligeCentre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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Joseph Kofi TeyeCentre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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Mary SetranaCentre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Pages 2655-2671 | Published online: 07 Nov 2018

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