'Generation Emigration': The politics of (trans)national social reproduction in twenty-first-century Ireland

Irish Studies Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-36

  Gray, Breda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

(e)migration; gender; Ireland; mobility; social reproduction; time space compression; time space expansion; transnational

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876328309     PISSN: 09670882     EISSN: 14699303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2012.759707     Document Type: Review

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