Gendered encounters with modernity: Labor migrants and marriage choices in contemporary Thailand

Identities

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-334

  Mills, Mary Beth ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity; Migration; Modernity; Thailand; Women

Indexed keywords

LABOR MIGRATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS;

THAILAND;

EID: 0032414961     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962620     Document Type: Article

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