Psychological well-being and ethnic identities of Jewish adolescents planning emigration from Russia and Ukraine to Israel: Changes during the post-perestroika period

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 553-564

  Tartakovsky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adolescent immigrants; Ethnic identity; Israel; Psychological well being; Russia; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549099098     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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