Migration for Labor, Migration for Love: Marriage and Family Formation across Borders

(t(Poor Masha' [grandmother] moaned, 'what is to become of her! Her chances [for marriage] had been small enough without a dowry. And now, burdened with an aged father and a blind helpless mother, the best she can expect is a middle aged widower with half a dozen children!"...After dinner she said to mother, hesitating at every word as she spoke, 'You know, I decided last night, that when you go to America Masha should go with you" (1).