A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy?

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  2015

• Venue

  Urban Studies

• Publication date

  2015-09-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Sociology, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0042098014544758
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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