Milk teeth and jet planes: Kin relations in families of Sri Lanka's transnational domestic servants

City and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-31

  Gamburd, Michele R ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; GENDER ROLE; KINSHIP; LABOR MIGRATION; STAKEHOLDER; TRANSMIGRATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 47249100257     PISSN: 08930465     EISSN: 1548744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-744X.2008.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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