EU integration & emigration consequences: The case of Lithuania

International Migration

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 191-233

  Thaut, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; IMMIGRATION POLICY; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; POLICY APPROACH;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 59749086245     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00501.x     Document Type: Article

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