Why return migrants return: Survey evidence on motives for internal return migration in Sweden

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 656-673

  Niedomysl, Thomas ^a   Amcoff, Jan ^a  

^a Institute for Futures Studies   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Internal return migration; Motives; Survey data; Sweden

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RETURN MIGRATION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 80051994492     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.644     Document Type: Article

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