Dreaming inside a Walled City: Imagination, gender and the roots of immigration

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 411-438

  Teo, Sin Yih ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; GENDER ROLE; IMMIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 2042474780     PISSN: 01171968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/011719680301200401     Document Type: Article

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