Viewing diasporas from the Pacific: What Pacific ethnographies offer Pacific diaspora studies

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 474-502

  Gershon, Ilana ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Exchange; Families; Knowledge circulation; Migrants; Networks

Indexed keywords

DIASPORA; ETHNOPOLITICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; RELOCATION; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34548289788     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2007.0050     Document Type: Article

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