Able to come and go: Reproducing gender in female rural-urban migration in the Red River Delta

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 211-224

  Resurreccion, Bernadette P ^a   Van Khanh, Ha Thi ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Gender; Gender identity; Household labour regimes; Masculinity; Rural urban migration

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER RELATIONS; GENDER ROLE; LABOR MARKET; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; RED RIVER DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 34249057457     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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