Capitalizing social networks: Sri lankan migration to italy

Ethnography

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 315-333

  Pathirage, Jagath ^a   Collyer, Michael ^b  

^a Marga Institute   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Europe; Italy; social capital; Sri Lanka; undocumented migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052645758     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138110362013     Document Type: Article

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