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People, Place, and Region

“I Want My Children to Know Sudan”: Narrating the Long-Distance Intimacies of Diasporic Politics

Pages 1052-1067 | Received 01 Jul 2012, Accepted 01 Nov 2013, Published online: 11 Jun 2014

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