Globalizing 'postsocialism:' Mobile mothers and neoliberalism on the margins of Europe

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 431-461

  Keough, Leyla J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gagauz; Migration; Moldova; Post socialism; Russia; Socialism; Transnational labor; Turkey; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748867612     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2006.0036     Document Type: Article

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