Placing movers: An overview of the Asian-Pacific migration system

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 385-414

  Goss, Jon ^a   Lindquist, Bruce ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Asian migration; Indenture; International labor migration; Migration networks; Migration systems; Overseas contract workers; Pacific Islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034356319     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2000.0053     Document Type: Article

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