Neither global nor local: Heterogeneous connectivity in spatial network structures of world migration

Social Networks

Volumn 53, Issue , 2018, Pages 4-19

  Danchev, Valentin ^a,b   Porter, Mason A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Human mobility; Social spatial networks; Spatial modularity; World migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027452471     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2017.06.003     Document Type: Article

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