From private to public sphere, the commodification of the au pair experience? Returned migrants from Slovakia to the UK

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1813-1833

  Williams, Allan M ^a   Baláž, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; MIGRANT WORKER; RETURN MIGRATION; WOMENS STATUS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 6944226182     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a36279     Document Type: Article

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