Those Easily Forgotten: The Impact of Emigration on Those Left Behind

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 376-390

  Marchetti Mercer, Maria C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; FAMILY RELATION; FRIEND; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING; SOUTH AFRICA; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEREAVEMENT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; SIBLINGS; SOUTH AFRICA; VIDEOCONFERENCING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866376592     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01407.x     Document Type: Article

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