Book Chapter

Mental Health and Migration: The Case of the Irish, 1850s-1990s

E Malcolm

Migration Ethnicity and Mental Health International Perspectives 1840 2010 | Routledge | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.4324/9780203128435-2

Abstract

‘There is scarcely any human act so important in its consequences as that of exchanging one country for another’. 1.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Elizabeth Malcolm Author

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