Scientific mobility policies: How Portuguese scientists envisage the return home

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 284-298

  Fontes, Margarida ^a  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIASPORA; IMMIGRATION POLICY; MOBILITY; RETURN MIGRATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548317343     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/030234207X214750     Document Type: Article

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