Disciplinary agendas and analytic strategies of research on immigrant transnationalism: Challenges of interdisciplinary knowledge

International Migration Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 611-640

  Morawska, Ewa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; IMMIGRATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NATIONAL IDENTITY;

EID: 0345134635     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2003.tb00152.x     Document Type: Article

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