Migration and culture

Frontiers of Economics and Globalization

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-21

  Epstein, Gil S ^a,b,c   Gang, Ira N ^b,c,d  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c Centre of Research and Analysis of Migration   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Culture; Discrimination; Migration; Mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872002852     PISSN: 15748715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1574-8715(2010)0000008007     Document Type: Article

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