"You know, Abraham was really the first immigrant": Religion and transnational migration

International Migration Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 847-873

  Levitt, Peggy ^a,b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; RELIGION;

EID: 0345566214     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2003.tb00160.x     Document Type: Article

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