| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Mobility and displacement are major characteristics of contemporary societies. These population shifts are far from fluid, homogeneous or linear, but are, instead, interspersed with a range of longer or shorter periods of waiting. Whether these intervals are technically, administratively or politically motivated, they are often understood in spatial terms: waiting societies have a territorial dimension. This volume examines and assesses the many forms that waiting territories take, in order to better understand their various juridical statuses, their relationships with their spatial environmen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Population geography -- America
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Society & social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
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Population geography
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America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vidal, Laurent, 1967- editor.
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Musset, Alain, editor.
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Rigaud, Margaret, translator
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Wassenaar, Ingrid, translator.
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| LC no. |
2016436697 |
| ISBN |
9781443816670 |
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1443816671 |
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