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... women teachers and nurses.25 Family survival strategies – Deteriorating economic conditions in the home country mean that women , too , may be better off migrating . The number of women crossing the border from Mexico to the United ...
... women teachers and nurses.25 Family survival strategies – Deteriorating economic conditions in the home country mean that women , too , may be better off migrating . The number of women crossing the border from Mexico to the United ...
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... women . At the other end of the scale , fewer immi- grant women than native women held professional jobs , though here the dif- ferences were smaller ( 9-10 per cent compared with 14-16 per cent ) .30 A sim- ilar pattern is evident in ...
... women . At the other end of the scale , fewer immi- grant women than native women held professional jobs , though here the dif- ferences were smaller ( 9-10 per cent compared with 14-16 per cent ) .30 A sim- ilar pattern is evident in ...
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... women live as wives of absent migrants at any one time - and that in total the men are likely to spend an average of 15 years away from home in the mines of South Africa . This has pro- duced what has been called the “ feminization of ...
... women live as wives of absent migrants at any one time - and that in total the men are likely to spend an average of 15 years away from home in the mines of South Africa . This has pro- duced what has been called the “ feminization of ...
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