Growing up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 23, Issue , 1997, Pages 63-95

  Zhou, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation assimilation; Immigrant children; Intergenerational relations; Race ethnicity; The second generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010334979     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.63     Document Type: Article

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