The ties that heal: Guatemalan immigrant women's networks and medical treatment

International Migration Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 437-466

  Menjívar, Cecilia ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TREATMENT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036616629     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2002.tb00088.x     Document Type: Article

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