Leavers and stayers discuss returning home: Internet discourses on migration in the context of the post-communist transformation

Social Identities

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-324

  Galasińska, Aleksandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Internet forum; Migration; Normal; Poland; Return

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; EUROPEAN UNION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POLITICAL REFORM; POST-COMMUNISM; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; VIEW;

POLAND;

EID: 77952909058     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: 13630296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2010.482416     Document Type: Article

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