Home from Home? Locational Choices of International “Creative Class” Workers

European Planning Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2336-2355

  Brown, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; DECISION MAKING; IMMIGRATION POLICY; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MOVEMENT; POLICY APPROACH;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84948114521     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2014.988012     Document Type: Article

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