Suicide narratives and in-between identities among sri lanka's factory workers

Ethnology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Hewamanne, Sandya ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; CLASS; DIASPORA; GARMENT INDUSTRY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; SUICIDE;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 79955855733     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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