Somali parents' experiences of bringing up children in Finland: Exploring social-cultural change within migrant households

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Degn, Filio ^a,b   Pöntinen, Seppo ^a,b   Mölsä, Mulki ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Department of Public Health ^*  (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Family; Finland; Institutions; Islam; Parenting; Somalis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745321705     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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