Migration, remittances, and household strategies

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2011, Pages 103-114

  Cohen, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic well being; Migration; Social life; Transnationalism economic life

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD INCOME; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; MIGRATION; NATIONALISM;

EID: 80053402691     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-081309-145851     Document Type: Article

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