Pre-migration acculturation attitudes among potential ethnic migrants from Russia to Finland

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 326-339

  Yijälä, Anu ^a   Jasinskaja Lahti, Inga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acculturation attitudes; Ethnic migrants from Russia to Finland; Pre acculturation; Pre migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953534504     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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