Migration as family strategy: Rural-urban labor migration in India during the twentieth century

History of the Family

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 481-505

  De Haan, Arjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY SIZE; INDIA; KINSHIP NETWORKS; MIGRATION; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHERN ASIA; TEMPORARY MIGRATION;

ASIA; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; INDIA; KINSHIP NETWORKS; MIGRATION; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTHERN ASIA; TEMPORARY MIGRATION;

ASIA; BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; INDIA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031283032     PISSN: 1081602X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-602X(97)90026-9     Document Type: Article

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