Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong.
We develop the concept of linked lives to deepen understanding of the relationship between migration and precarity. Linked lives and precariousness are mutually constitutive as they embed subjects in the social, spatial, and temporal relations of everyday life while referencing transitions, trajecto...
| Publicado en: | Population Space & Place Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 1 - 13 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2021
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