The crisis of social reproduction in rural mexico: Challenging the 're-privatization of social reproduction' thesis

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 913-945

  Kunz, Rahel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

(re )privatization; Children; Development; Gender; Migration; Neo liberalism; Remittances; Rural mexico; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649383945     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692291003669644     Document Type: Article

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