Leaving Family for Work: Ambivalence and Mental Health Among Mexican Migrant Farmworker Men

Joseph G. Grzywacz1, Sara A. Quandt2, Julie Early1, Janeth Tapia3, Christopher N. Graham2, Thomas A. Arcury1
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
3North Carolina Farmworkers' Project, Benson, North Carolina

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