Migrant remittances and household wellbeing in Urban Zimbabwe

International Migration

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 203-227

  Bracking, Sarah ^a   Sachikonye, Lloyd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; FINANCIAL CRISIS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MACROECONOMICS; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HISTORY; HOUSING; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFESTYLE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOUSING; LIFE STYLE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

BULAWAYO [ZIMBABWE]; HARARE [ZIMBABWE]; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 77956582774     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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