Los angeles’s chinese ethnoburb: From ethnic service center to global economy outpost

Urban Geography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 502-517

  Li, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ETHNIC MINORITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032421963     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.19.6.502     Document Type: Article

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