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Rethinking the Political Dimension of Migrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2009

ALEXIS SPIRE*
Affiliation:
CERAPS, Université de Lille 2, 1 Place Deliot, 69000 Lille, France; alexis.spire@univ-lille2.fr.

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