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Contesting the right to the city under scarcity: the case of Micronesians in Hawaiʻi’s public housing

Nathalie Ritaa Department of Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, USACorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Jennifer Darrah-Okikea Department of Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5843-3648View further author information
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Pages 165-188 | Received 08 Oct 2019, Accepted 04 May 2020, Published online: 16 Oct 2020

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