Translocality: Concepts, Applications and Emerging Research Perspectives

Geography Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 373-384

  Greiner, Clemens ^a   Sakdapolrak, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Migration; Spatial theory; Translocality; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MIGRATION; MOBILITY; NATIONALISM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84876017664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12048     Document Type: Article

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