'We took a bath with the chickens': Memories of childhood visits to the homeland by second-generation Greek and Greek Cypriot 'returnees'

Global Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-23

  King, Russell ^a   Christou, Anastasia ^a   Teerling, Janine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

childhood; Cyprus; Greece; memory; return migration; Second generation; transnationalism

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD; CYPRUS; GREECE; MEMORY; RETURN MIGRATION; SECOND GENERATION; TRANSNATIONALISM;

REGIONAL PLANNING;

ADULT; CHILD; MEMORY; NATIONALISM; POULTRY; RETURN MIGRATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

GREECE;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 78650124796     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2010.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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