Narratives of the children left behind: Home and identity in globalised Caribbean families

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-284

  Olwig, Karen Fog ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; GLOBALIZATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 0032766828     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1999.9976685     Document Type: Article

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