Employer Recruitment and Hispanic Labor Migration: North Carolina Urban Areas at the End of the Millennium

Professional Geographer

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 406-421

  Johnson Webb, Karen D ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanics; Immigration; Labor recruitment; North Carolina; Southeastern U.S

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; RECRUITMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036056817     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00339     Document Type: Article

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