Transnational families

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 155-175

  Baldassar, Loretta ^a,b   Kilkey, Majella ^c   Merla, Laura ^d   Wilding, Raelene ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Care; Care circulation; Migrant families; Migration; Migration policy; Mobility; Social uses of new technologies; Transnational care; Transnational families

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967224676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118374085.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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