Relational constitution of social support in migrants' transnational personal communities

Social Networks

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-74

  Herz, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ego centred network; Migration; Multi level regression analysis; Personal community; Social support; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907494711     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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