Volume 37 - Article 19 | Pages 599–634  

Childbearing patterns among immigrant women and their daughters in Spain: Over-adaptation or structural constraints

By Amparo González-Ferrer, Teresa Castro Martín, Elisabeth Kraus, Tatiana Eremenko

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