Reserve soldiers as transmigrants: Moving between the civilian and military worlds

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 593-614

  Lomsky Feder, Edna ^a   Gazit, Nir ^a   Ben Ari, Eyal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Civil military relations; Reserve Service; Reserves; Transmigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949209615     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X07312090     Document Type: Article

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