Negotiating work and parenting over the life course: Mexican family dynamics in a binational context

Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 190-218

  Dreby, Joanna ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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