Volume 30 - Article 39 | Pages 1129–1156
Household ecology and out-migration among ethnic Karen along the Thai-Myanmar border
By Daniel M. Parker, James W. Wood, Shinsuke Tomita, Sharon DeWitte, Julia Jennings, Liwang Cui
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