Aspiration, reunification and gender transformation in Jat Sikh marriages from India to Canada

Global Networks

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 389-403

  Mooney, Nicola ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITY;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ETHNICITY; GENDER DISPARITY; IMMIGRATION; MARRIAGE; RESEARCH WORK;

ASIA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; EURASIA; INDIA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; SOUTH ASIA; TORONTO; VANCOUVER;

EID: 33748787681     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00151.x     Document Type: Review

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