In transit: Changing social networks of sub-Saharan African migrants in Turkey and Greece

Social Networks

Volumn 53, Issue , 2018, Pages 30-41

  Wissink, Marieke ^a   Mazzucato, Valentina ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Network change; Personal network analysis; Transit migration; Transnational networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016502900     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2017.03.005     Document Type: Article

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