Repetitive visiting as a pre-return transnational strategy among youthful Trinidadian returnees

Mobilities

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 249-273

  Conway, Dennis ^a   Potter, Robert B ^b   St Bernard, Godfrey ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Permanent return migration; Repetitive return visits; Temporary circulation; Transnational practices; Trinidad and Tobago; Youthful return migrants

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; POPULATION MIGRATION; RETURN MIGRATION; YOUNG POPULATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 68349111786     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100902906707     Document Type: Article

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