Life below a 'language threshold'?: Stories of Turkish marriage migrant women in Denmark

European Journal of Women's Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-247

  Liversage, Anika ^a  

^a VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gender; Kurdish immigrants; Language learning; Life story research; Marriage migration; Turkish immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549083383     PISSN: 13505068     EISSN: 14617420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350506809105307     Document Type: Article

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