Mobilities
Volume 14, 2019 - Issue 4
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Infrastructures of immobility: enabling international distance education students in Africa to not move
Markus Roos BreinesDepartment of Geography, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Parvati RaghuramDepartment of Geography, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Ashley GunterDepartment of Geography, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
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Pages 484-499
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Received 14 Dec 2018, Accepted 25 Apr 2019, Published online: 02 Jun 2019
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