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Bodies That (Don’t) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration

Ali Nobil Ahmad Department of History, European University Institute, FlorenceCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 309-327 | Published online: 21 Dec 2009

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