Adjustment failures in an immigrant population: Finns in Sweden

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 545-563

  Saarela, Jan ^a   Finnäs, Fjalar ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adjustment failures; Immigrants; Language groups; Long term integration

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LABOR MARKET; RETURN MIGRATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 34249746293     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-006-9050-x     Document Type: Article

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