North-South Migration in Ghana: What Role for the Environment?

International Migration

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Van der Geest, Kees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN IMMIGRANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; REFUGEE;

GHANA;

EID: 79956210302     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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