The other side of the healthy immigrant paradox: Chinese sojourners in Ireland and Britain who return to China due to personal and familial health crises

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 627-641

  Fong, Vanessa L ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Epidemiology; Europe; Health; Migration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BACKACHE; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IRELAND; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BACK PAIN; CHINA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IRELAND;

EID: 55949090230     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-008-9112-4     Document Type: Article

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