Exercising exit, voice and loyalty: A gender perspective on transnationalism in Haiti

Development and Change

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 743-771

  Gammage, Sarah ^a,b  

^a Ctro Estudios Ambientales Sociales   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; GENDER ROLE; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; NATIONAL IDENTITY; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; HAITI; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 7244240624     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2004.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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