Migrant remittances and the web of family obligations: Ongoing support among spatially extended kin in North-east Thailand, 1984-94

Population Studies

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-104

  Rindfuss, Ronald R ^a,b   Piotrowski, Martin ^c   Entwisle, Barbara ^a   Edmeades, Jeffrey ^d   Faust, Katherine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural help; extended kin; migration; remittances; social networks

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

THAILAND;

EID: 84856983222     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2011.644429     Document Type: Article

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