Transnational family reunions as lived experience: Narrating a Salvadoran autoethnography

Identities

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 411-431

  Ramirez, Marcela ^a   Skrbis, Zlatko ^a   Emmison, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Family reunion; Salvadorans; Trans nationalism

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; KINSHIP; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

CALIFORNIA; CANADA; CENTRAL AMERICA; EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA]; LONDON [ONTARIO]; LOS ANGELES; MANAGUA [NICARAGUA]; NICARAGUA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35348992090     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890701578456     Document Type: Article

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