Documenting the exodus: The dimensions and local causes of bechuanaland women’s migration to south africa, 1920–1966

South African Geographical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-51

  Cockerton, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECHUANALAND; HISTORICAL STUDY; TSWANA PEOPLE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WOMEN'S MIGRATION;

BOTSWANA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031443415     PISSN: 03736245     EISSN: 21512418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03736245.1997.9713621     Document Type: Article

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