Grandmothers, girlfriends and big men: The gendered geographies of Jamaican transnational communication

Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 65-77

  Horst, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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