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| Mobility, moralities and motherhood: Navigating the contingencies of Cape Verdean lives L Åkesson, J Carling, H Drotbohm Journal of ethnic and migration studies 38 (2), 237-260, 2012 | 159 | 2012 |
| Mobility at the heart of a nation: patterns and meanings of Cape Verdean migration J Carling, L Åkesson International migration 47 (3), 123-155, 2009 | 108 | 2009 |
| Remittances and relationships: exchange in Cape Verdean transnational families L Åkesson Ethnos 76 (3), 326-347, 2011 | 88 | 2011 |
| Remittances and inequality in Cape Verde: the impact of changing family organization L Åkesson Global networks 9 (3), 381-398, 2009 | 83 | 2009 |
| Globala familjer: Transnationell migration och släktskap M Eastmond, L Åkesson Gidlund, 2007 | 52 | 2007 |
| Africa's return migrants: the new developers? L Åkesson, ME Baaz Zed Books Ltd., 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| Making migrants responsible for development: Cape Verdean returnees and northern migration policies L Åkesson Africa Spectrum 46 (1), 61-83, 2011 | 28 | 2011 |
| Multicultural ideology and transnational family ties among descendants of Cape Verdeans in Sweden L Åkesson Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37 (2), 217-235, 2011 | 26 | 2011 |
| The resilience of the Cape Verdean migration tradition L Åkesson Transnational archipelago: Perspectives on Cape Verdean migration and …, 2008 | 25 | 2008 |
| Moving beyond the Colonial?. New Portuguese Migrants in Angola L Åkesson Cahiers d’études africaines, 267-286, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Transnationella rum: diaspora, migration och gränsöverskridande relationer E Olsson, C Lundqvist, A Rabo, L Sawyer, Ö Wahlbeck, L Åkesson Boréa, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| Cape Verdean notions of migrant remittances L Åkesson Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 139-159, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| The queue outside the embassy: Remittances, inequality and restrictive migration regimes L Åkesson International Migration 51, e1-e12, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants Or Masters? L Åkesson Springer, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Come Back, Invest, and Advance the Country: Policy Myths and Migrant Realities of Return and Development in Senegal G Sinatti Africa’s return migrants: The new developers, 87-108, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| To make a life: Meanings of migration in the transnational homeland of Cape Verde L Åkesson PhD thesis, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg, 2004 | 11 | 2004 |
| Multi‐sited accumulation of capital: Cape Verdean returnees and small‐scale business L Åkesson Global Networks 16 (1), 112-129, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| North–South migration and the corrupt other: Practices of bribery among Portuguese migrants in Angola L Åkesson, C Orjuela Geopolitics 24 (1), 230-250, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
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