Transnational citizens or circulating semi-proletarians? A study of migration circulation between Sweden and Asia, Latin America and Africa between 1968 and 2002

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 517-527

  Tollefsen, Aina ^a   Lindgren, Urban ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Circular migration; Mobility; South North migration; Sweden; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POWER RELATIONS; SKILLED LABOR;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LATIN AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33751097224     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.423     Document Type: Article

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