Migration and Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0857241532
- ISBN-13
- 9780857241535
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 758
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-16
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing
- Authors
- Gil Epstein, Ira Gang
Description
Culture plays a central role in our understanding of migration as an economic phenomenon. This title emphasises on the distinctions in culture between migrants, the families they left behind, and the local population in the migration destination.
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