Home and migration: Mobilities, belongings and identities

Geography Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 517-530

  Ralph, David ^a   Staeheli, Lynn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; MIGRATION; NATIONALISM; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79960057556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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