Labour migration and ties of relatedness: Diasporic houses and investments in memory in a rural Philippine village

Thesis Eleven

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 88-114

  Aguilar, Filomeno ^a  

^a ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

cognatic kinship; diaspora; house construction; Overseas Filipino Workers; remittances; transnational migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549118861     PISSN: 07255136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0725513609105485     Document Type: Article

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