Transnational Disorders: Returned Migrants at Oaxaca's Psychiatric Hospital

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-41

  Duncan, Whitney L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Illegality; Mental health; Mexico; Migration; Structural vulnerability

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MEXICO; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MEXICO; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924062547     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12138     Document Type: Article

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