Measuring transnationality of immigrants in Germany: prevalence and relationship with social inequalities

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1497-1519

  Fauser, Margit ^a   Liebau, Elisabeth ^b   Voigtländer, Sven ^c   Tuncer, Hidayet ^a   Faist, Thomas ^a   Razum, Oliver ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority   (Germany)

Author keywords

capital; Germany; heterogeneity; inequality; migrants; transnationality

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; IMMIGRANT; MARGINALIZATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NATIONALISM; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

GERMANY;

EID: 84929954749     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1005639     Document Type: Article

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