Making sense of home and homeland: Former-soviet Greeks' motivations and strategies for a transnational migrant circuit

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-85

  Popov, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greece; Home; Homeland; Pontic Greeks; Post Soviet Russia; Transnational migrant circuit

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNIC GROUP; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; NATIONAL IDENTITY; PERCEPTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; USSR;

EID: 70350745967     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: 14699451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691830903123211     Document Type: Article

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