Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind

Mobilities

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 369-388

  McEvoy, Jamie ^a   Petrzelka, Peggy ^b   Radel, Claudia ^b   Schmook, Birgit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

empowerment; gender; migration; mobility

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; LABOR MIGRATION; MALE; MOBILITY; MORALITY; WOMENS STATUS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84864701986     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655977     Document Type: Article

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