A mother's heart is weighed down with stones: A phenomenological approach to the experience of transnational motherhood

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-40

  Horton, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Illegality; Migration; Phenomenology; Transnational families

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EL SALVADOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEPARATION ANXIETY; UNITED STATES;

ANXIETY, SEPARATION; EL SALVADOR; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58549105445     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-008-9117-z     Document Type: Article

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