Outsourcing care: How Peruvian migrants meet transnational family obligations

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 67-87

  Leinaweaver, Jessaca B ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Anthropology; Child fostering; Elder care; Migration; Peru; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ELDERLY CARE; IMMIGRATION POLICY; LABOR MIGRATION; OUTSOURCING; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATIONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PERU; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

ANDES; PERU;

EID: 77956356895     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: 1552678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X10380222     Document Type: Article

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