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The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups: disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control

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The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups: disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control. / Gill, Nick; Conlon, Deidre; Tyler, Imogen et al.
In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 104, No. 2, 2014, p. 373-381.

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Gill, N, Conlon, D, Tyler, I & Oeppen, C 2014, 'The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups: disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2013.857544

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Gill, N., Conlon, D., Tyler, I., & Oeppen, C. (2014). The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups: disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(2), 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2013.857544

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Gill N, Conlon D, Tyler I, Oeppen C. The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups: disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2014;104(2):373-381. Epub 2013 Dec 18. doi: 10.1080/00045608.2013.857544

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Gill, Nick ; Conlon, Deidre ; Tyler, Imogen et al. / The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups : disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control. In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2014 ; Vol. 104, No. 2. pp. 373-381.

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