Homo Emigraturus vs. Anti Emigraturus: the rise of involuntary immobility in Iran and its consequences.
The research on international migration suffers from a narrow conceptual focus on immigrants and an oversight of a much larger category, i.e. those who desire to migrate but cannot. We call the latter group Homo Emigraturus ('about to leave') – a group whose in-between position vis-à-vis migration m...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 970 - 994 |
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