The local economic imprint of return migrants in Bolivia

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 435-453

  Jones, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic imprint; Embeddedness; Return migration; Social remittances

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LABOR MIGRATION; LOCAL ECONOMY; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; RETURN MIGRATION;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 80051999147     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.626     Document Type: Article

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