From 'Russianness' to 'Israeliness' through the landscape of the soul: Therapeutic discourse in the practice of immigrant absorption in Israel with 'Russian' adolescents

Social Identities

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 739-761

  Plotkin Amrami, Galia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Identity construction; Immigration; Nationalism; Therapeutic discourse

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; IMMIGRANT; NATIONAL IDENTITY; NATIONALISM; RELIGION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 57049181446     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: 13630296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630802462869     Document Type: Article

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