Of counter-diaspora and reverse transnationalism: Return mobilities to and from the ancestral homeland

Mobilities

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 451-466

  King, Russell ^a   Christou, Anastasia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diaspora; home and belonging; return migration; Return mobilities; transnationalism; visits

Indexed keywords

DIASPORA; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; MOBILITY; RETURN MIGRATION;

EID: 84859351865     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2011.603941     Document Type: Article

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