'Mobile transmigrants' or 'unsettled returnees'? myth of return and permanent resettlement among Senegalese migrants

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-166

  Sinatti, Giulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Migration; Mobility; Return; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION DETERMINANT; MOBILITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REFUGEE; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; RETURN MIGRATION;

SENEGAL;

EID: 79952179098     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.608     Document Type: Article

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