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Regulating human movement in a global pandemic: ‘Essential Travel’ during COVID-19 在全球大流行期间调节人员流动：COVID-19期间的“必要旅行”

Migration Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnaf012

Lorenzo Piccoli, Timothy Jacob-Owens

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Attitudes towards immigration and unemployment risk cleavages: Untangling the economically rooted group conflict framework 对移民和失业风险裂痕的态度：解开经济上根深蒂固的群体冲突框架

Migration Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnae003

E. Kayran

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