Studying Migrants with the Help of the Internet: Methods from Psychology

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1405-1424

  Reips, Ulf Dietrich ^a   Buffardi, Laura E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Internet Based Research; Methodology; Migration; Social Media; Social Networking

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH METHOD; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84865012181     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: 14699451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2012.698208     Document Type: Article

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