The socio-cultural impacts of visiting friends and relatives on hosts: A Samoan study

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2010, Pages 89-100

  Taufatofua, R G ^a   Craig Smith, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Social and cultural capital; Socio cultural resilience; Visiting friends and relatives

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; REMITTANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

SAMOA;

EID: 77958193670     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ISLANDS100081     Document Type: Article

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