Integration a few kilometres away from the motherland: Albanians' internal migration, settlement and voluntary return in Epirus and the Ionian Islands in Greece

Migration Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-154

  Gialis, Stelios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Albanian migration; Epirus; Greece; integration; internal migration; return; the Ionian Islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859884956     PISSN: 17418984     EISSN: 17418992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33182/ml.v9i2.103     Document Type: Article

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