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Adding critical accounting voices to migration studies

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  • Agyemang, Gloria
  • Lehman, Cheryl R.

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The field of migration study is continually evolving and frequently controversial, as diverse people cross the globe and as social and economic transformations prevail. Although scholars in many disciplines have actively contributed to migration research, accounting scholars have been less actively engaged, despite migration's use of concepts so closely aligned with accounting: costs, benefits, risk, and control. This paper considers how accounting researchers may contribute to the study of migration, highlighting the potential for critical researchers to re-define terrains of discourse.

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  • Agyemang, Gloria & Lehman, Cheryl R., 2013. "Adding critical accounting voices to migration studies," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 24(4), pages 261-272.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:crpeac:v:24:y:2013:i:4:p:261-272
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2012.09.009
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