Social network development experiences of immigrants from Turkey to Canada.
The concept of social capital has gained popularity in the field of migration studies in recent decades, yet we still know relatively little about how immigrants develop social networks in their host countries – despite the fact that networks constitute the core of social capital. This paper applies...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 42; no. 15; pp. 2611 - 2629 |
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