Do Highly Educated Daughters of Immigrants Adapt to the Middle-class Division of Labour After Childbirth? Evidence from Second-generation Pakistani and Vietnamese in Norway

Anniken Lund

doi:10.33134/njmr.665

Do Highly Educated Daughters of Immigrants Adapt to the Middle-class Division of Labour After Childbirth? Evidence from Second-generation Pakistani and Vietnamese in Norway

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Volume 14 (2024): Issue 2

By: Anniken Lund

Open Access

|Jan 2024

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