Mothers on the move: Children's education and transnational mobility in global-city Singapore

The Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 31-54

  Yeoh, Brenda S A ^a   Huang, Shirlena ^a  

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