Living transnationally: Somali diasporic women in Cairo

International Migration

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-77

  Al Sharmani, Mulki ^a  

^a Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLD; GENDER RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WOMENS STATUS;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EAST AFRICA; EGYPT; EURASIA; EUROPE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; SOMALIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33646686119     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2006.00355.x     Document Type: Article

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