"Transnational" socio-cultural systems and ethnographic research: Views from an extended field site

International Migration Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 787-811

  Olwig, Karen Fog ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; NATION STATE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 0344704047     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2003.tb00158.x     Document Type: Article

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