Lives on the border: Language and culture in the lives of ethnic Russian women in Baltinava, Latvia

Nationalities Papers

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-142

  Cara, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Identity; Language; Latvia; Russians

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNIC GROUP; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; LANGUAGE; WOMENS STATUS;

LATVIA;

EID: 77949338666     PISSN: 00905992     EISSN: 14653923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00905990903394474     Document Type: Article

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