Engendering migration studies: The case of new immigrants in the United States

Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 20-42

  Pessar, Patricia R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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