'Garang's seeds': Influences on the return of Sudanese-Canadian refugee physicians to post-conflict South Sudan

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-206

  Finlay, Juli L ^a   Crutcher, Rodney A ^a   Drummond, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain drain; Physician; Refugee; Repatriation; Sudan

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DRAIN; CITIZENSHIP; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POPULATION MIGRATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; REPATRIATION; RETURN MIGRATION;

CUBA; SUDAN;

EID: 79952058765     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: 14716925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/feq047     Document Type: Article

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