Wife or worker? worker or wife? Marriage and cross-border migration in contemporary Japan

International Journal of Population Geography

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 457-469

  Piper, Nicola ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizenship; International marriage; International migration; Japan

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; MARRIAGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 0348224880     PISSN: 10773495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijpg.309     Document Type: Article

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