'She's always the person with a very global vision': The gender dynamics of migration, narrative interpretation and the case of Jamaican transnational families

Gender and History

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 334-375

  Bauer, Elaine ^a   Thompson, Paul ^b  

^a Institute of Community Studies   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; GENDER ROLE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 10044223522     PISSN: 09535233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.00344.x     Document Type: Review

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