Migrating with honor: Sites of agency and power in child labor migration in Bangladesh

Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 209-229

  Heissler, Karin ^a  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

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EID: 85016384655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230297098     Document Type: Chapter

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