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‘I am still close to my child’: middle-class Korean wild geese fathers’ responsible and intimate fatherhood in a transnational context

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Pages 2161-2178 | Received 22 Jun 2018, Accepted 14 Jan 2019, Published online: 30 Jan 2019

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