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FROM SOUTH ASIAN TO DIASPORA: MISSING WOMEN AND MIGRATION
The modernisation paradigm is here tested and found wanting in a very particular context; the experience of the migrant. Women in South Asia have a biologically abnormal chance of mortality from conception until their mid-30s. This phenomenon is thought to be related to a range of economic and cultu...
Main Author: | McCartney and Gill |
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Format: | Printed Book |
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SOAS Working Paper 152
2007
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Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/003222.pdf |
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