Changing family structures of Nepalese transmigrants in Japan: Split-households and dual-wage earners

Global Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 337-358

  Yamanaka, Keiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

FAMILY STRUCTURES; GLOBAL LABOR FORCE;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EMIGRATION; FAMILY STRUCTURE; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 29144490898     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2005.00123.x     Document Type: Review

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