'Gap-fillers' or 'clan-destroyers': Transnational female solidarity towards kin in the region of Fier

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 555-573

  Smith, Erin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Albania; Clan; Gender; Migration; Remittances

Indexed keywords

EID: 75349087613     PISSN: 14683857     EISSN: 17439639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14683850903315052     Document Type: Article

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