"We came for the work": Situating employment migration in B.C/S small, resource-based, communities

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 363-381

  Halseth, Grec ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lucas; Migration; Resource dependent communities; Restructuring

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; RURAL SOCIETY;

CANADA;

EID: 0033512428     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1999.tb01395.x     Document Type: Article

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