'A place to stay in Pakistan': Why migrants build houses in their country of origin

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 629-641

  Erdal, Marta Bivand ^a  

^a PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Home; Integration; Migrant transnationalism; Place; Remittances

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; NATIONALISM; RETURN MIGRATION; SENSE OF PLACE;

NORWAY; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84864300514     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1694     Document Type: Article

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