The economic determinants of Greek return migration to the islands of the East Aegean

International Migration

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 297-319

  Robolis, S ^a   Xideas, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DETERMINANT; INTERNAL MIGRATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; RETURN MIGRATION;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DESTINATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; MIGRATION; ORIGIN; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETURN MIGRATION--DETERMINANTS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DESTINATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; MIGRATION; ORIGIN; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETURN MIGRATION--DETERMINANTS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; GREECE; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

GREECE, CHIOS; GREECE, LESBOS; GREECE, RHODES; GREECE, SAMOS;

EID: 0030471775     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.1996.tb00527.x     Document Type: Article

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