Quality of life issues and second-generation migration: The case of 'Bajan-Brit Returnees'

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 239-251

  Phillips, Joan ^a   Potter, Rob B ^b  

^a POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barbados; Quality of life; Second generation Barbadians; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETURN MIGRATION; YOUNG POPULATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 69949109638     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.507     Document Type: Article

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