Leaving to get ahead: Assessing the relationship between mobility and inequality in Peruvian migration

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 29-49

  Takenaka, Ayumi ^a   Pren, Karen A ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact of migration; Peru; Remittances; Sending context; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRATION POLICY; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY SIZE; HISTORY; INCOME; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; PERU; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY HEALTH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INCOME; LATIN AMERICA; PERU; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

PERU;

EID: 77956386168     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: 1552678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X10379106     Document Type: Article

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