Singapore's changing demography, the eldercare predicament and transnational 'care' migration

TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 247-269

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

demography; eldercare; transnational migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014720438     PISSN: 2051364X     EISSN: 20513658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/trn.2014.6     Document Type: Article

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