The impact of male migration on domestic budgeting: Egyptian women striving for an Islamic budgeting pattern.
Apart from studies of the economic impact of large-scale male migration from Egypt to the Arab oil-producing countries, little scholary attention has been paid to this social phenomenon and the creation of a significant number of de facto female headed households. This article focuses on the influen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 28; pp. 73 - 99 |
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies
Summer 1997
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