'You can't be two places at once': Rethinking transnationalism through Jamaican return migration

Identities

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 63-83

  Horst, Heather A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; RETURN MIGRATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34347205230     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890601102522     Document Type: Article

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