Local attachments and transnational everyday lives: Second-generation Italians in Switzerland

Global Networks

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 365-382

  Wessendorf, Susanne ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belonging; Ethnicity; Roots migration; Second generation Italians; Switzerland; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

SECOND GENERATION; SECOND WORLD WAR; SENSE OF BELONGING; SOCIAL RELATIONS; SWITZERLAND; TRANSNATIONALISM;

REGIONAL PLANNING;

ACCULTURATION; ETHNICITY; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; MIGRATION; NATIONALISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; WAR;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77953185959     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2010.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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