Theorising Chance: Capturing the Role of Ad Hoc Social Interactions in Migrants' Trajectories

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Gladkova, Nataliia ^a   Mazzucato, Valentina ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; chance; trajectories; transit migration

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AFRICA; UKRAINE;

EID: 84950972523     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1988     Document Type: Article

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