'We're Finns here, and Russians there': A longitudinal study on ethnic identity construction in the context of ethnic migration

Discourse and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-134

  Varjonen, Sirkku ^a   Arnold, Linda ^a   Jasinskaja Lahti, Inga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; discursive psychology; ethnic identities; ethnic migrants; ethnic migration; Finland; immigrants; Ingrian Finns; longitudinal study; minorities; Russia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872456346     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926512463632     Document Type: Article

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