'Mama's family': Fictive kinship and undocumented immigrant restaurant workers

Ethnography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 497-513

  Kim, Esther Chihye ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Fictive kinship; Immigrants; Life history; Undocumented workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449974218     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138109347000     Document Type: Article

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