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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Extended households"”.
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Extended living arrangements in Chile: An analysis of subfamilies
Extended households are far from a rare phenomenon in Latin America and their prevalence does not seem to be in decline. In Chile, they accounted for about a quarter of all households over the 1990–2011 period. This persistence contrasts with the dramatic transformations that have taken place in …
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Masculinized Labor Activism and Geographies of Household Reproduction in Thailand’s ‘Detroit’
… and reproduction across workers’ multi-sited households.</p> <p>This dissertation builds on the critical traditions within Human Geography as well as the work of feminist geographers to center the role of households and cultural practices of labor activism. By bringing together processes of …
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Identifying parasite virulence factors and host genetic and immunologic factors that contribute to severe malarial outcomes in Ugandan children
… were recruited from the neighborhoods and extended households of children with SM. Whole blood was collected at enrollment and was either processed immediately for plasma or was preserved and stored accordingly for future RNA and DNA isolation. We performed genotyping for endothelial …
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Heterogeneity and Female-Headed Households in Sri Lanka: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Transitional Development Society
Since the 1970s, female-headed households (FHHs) in developing countries have often been used in development literature as a proxy for poverty and vulnerability. In reality the profile of women-headed households is diverse; they include, at the least, rich and poor women, aged widows as well as …